College students’ academic motivation, media engagement and fear of missing out

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Highlights:

• Possible links between FoMO, social media engagement, and three motivational constructs were examined.

• A new scale was designed to measure the extent to which students used social media tools in the classroom.

• The links between social media engagement and motivational factors were mediated by FoMO.

摘要

•Possible links between FoMO, social media engagement, and three motivational constructs were examined.•A new scale was designed to measure the extent to which students used social media tools in the classroom.•The links between social media engagement and motivational factors were mediated by FoMO.

论文关键词:Fear of missing out,Social media engagement,Self-determination theory,Academic motivation,Higher education

论文评审过程:Available online 12 March 2015.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2015.02.057