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Personality and doomscrolling: The mediating role of fear of missing out in an Eastern context
Doomscrolling refers to the compulsive engagement with distressing news content online and is linked to negative psychological outcomes. Guided by the Stressful Media Consumption Framework and Compensatory Internet Use Theory, this study examined whether fear of missing out (FoMO) explains the association between Big Five personality traits and doomscrolling. FoMO has been theorized as an affective mechanism that may link emotional instability to maladaptive media engagement, yet its role in doomscrolling remains underexplored, particularly in Eastern contexts. Data were collected from 331 Indian social media users (aged 18–40) who completed validated measures of personality, FoMO, and doomscrolling. Correlation analyses indicated that neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and FoMO were significantly associated with doomscrolling. Multiple regression showed that FoMO had the largest standardized association with doomscrolling, followed by neuroticism (positive), agreeableness (negative), and conscientiousness (negative). Mediation analysis indicated that the indirect association between neuroticism and doomscrolling via FoMO was significant, whereas the direct association was not significant. These results suggest that FoMO may be one relevant affective factor connecting personality particularly emotional instability to compulsive news consumption. Our findings suggest that people high in neuroticism may doomscroll more when they feel they are missing out on information.
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New Ideas in Psychology is a journal for theoretical psychology in its broadest sense. We are looking for new and seminal ideas, from within Psychology and from other fields that have something to bring to Psychology. We welcome presentations and criticisms of theory, of background metaphysics, and of fundamental issues of method, both empirical and conceptual. We put special emphasis on the need for informed discussion of psychological theories to be interdisciplinary. Empirical papers are accepted at New Ideas in Psychology, but only as long as they focus on conceptual issues and are theoretically creative. We are also open to comments or debate, interviews, and book reviews.