Rifqa Amalia Azzyati’s scientific contributions

Social media has brought various impacts to human life, including negative impact such as fear of missing out (FOMO). Comprehensive researches of FOMO in Indonesia are still very little; hence this research was conducted in-depth. This research aims to explore and describe the fear of missing out (FOMO) phenomenon in social media users in Indonesia. Convergent mixed methods are used in this study, using the fear of missing out measurement scale compiled by Helmi (2020) (α = 0,758), adapted from Fear of Missing Out Scale by Przybylski et al. (2013) and an open-ended questionnaire. The quantitative result of this research shows that the majority of the participants have a moderate level of FOMO. The qualitative result describes that FOMO emerged from participants’ negative emotions due to work-related and academic information needs. Most of the participants stated that they felt neutral for not accessing social media for a long period of time. Integrated results of both quantitative and qualitative show confirmation of findings. This result of this study also shows no significant difference on FOMO level between men and women. In addition, differences found significantly based on various participants’ durations of social media use. Researchers suggest that participants should know a limit in using social media to prevent FOMO level from increasing.