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A pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent, together with the desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing. Przybylski, Murayama, DeHaan, and Gladwell introduced this definition in 2013 and grounded it in self-determination theory, treating fear of missing out as a symptom of unmet psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness. They built and validated a ten-item self-report scale and found that people who scored high on it reported heavier social-media engagement and lower mood and life satisfaction. In this meaning FOMO is a measured individual difference that varies across people and predicts behaviour: a trait to be characterized, not something a firm does to a customer.[1]
Fear of missing out treated as a persuasion appeal and a driver of anxious or impulsive buying, rather than as a standing trait. Good and Hyman examined the antecedents of consumer FOMO and its influence on purchase likelihood in 2020, and positioned the state as one that scarcity cues, limited-time offers, and visible social participation can provoke in order to move a sale. Here the construct is a lever for the marketer to pull: the question is not how much FOMO a person carries but how reliably a message can manufacture it and convert it into buying. The referent shifts from the individual's psychology to the firm's tactic, and the validity evidence concerns purchase intention, not well-being.[2]
Fear of missing out treated as an antecedent and a consequence of media behaviour: a driver of problematic social-media use, compulsive checking, and phubbing, and in turn something that heavy use sustains. Alt studied college students in 2015 and found that FOMO mediated the link between social-media engagement and extrinsic and amotivated forms of academic motivation. In this literature FOMO is neither a clinical trait to be characterized nor an appeal to be deployed but a mechanism inside a use loop, measured to explain why people stay connected and what that connection costs. The concern is engagement and its academic or attentional price, not the sale.[3]
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