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| Big Five Personality and Social Media Self-control Failure among College Students: The Role of Fear of Missing Out |
| CHEN Bi-zhong ZHENGXue |
| (School of Psychology/Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University , Guangzhou 510631, China ) |
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Abstract This study aimed to explore therelationship among Big Five personality, fear of missing out and social media self-control failure in college students.A total of 396college studentswere surveyed with Ten-Item Personality Inventory in China (TIPI-C), Fear of Missing Out Scale and Social Media Self-control Failure Scale. The results showed that:(1)Extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and emotional stabilityhad significant positive effects on fear of missing out; (2)Fear of missing outpositively predictedsocial media self-control failure; (3) Fear of missing out mediated the relationship between personality traits (extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness as well as emotional stability) and social media self-control failure, andit belonged to the suppressing effect.
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Published: 27 February 2019
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CHEN Bi-zhong,ZHENGXue. Big Five Personality and Social Media Self-control Failure among College Students: The Role of Fear of Missing Out[J]. 应用心理学, 2019, 25(2): 161-168.
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http://www.appliedpsy.cn/EN/Y2019/V25/I2/161 |
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