Neuroticism, FOMO, and Phubbing in Young Adults in Relation to Mindfulness

Abstract

The present research focuses on exploring the relationship between Personality traits, FOMO Mindfulness, Phubbing and being Phubbed in young adults. The data was collected from 327 (Mean age= 19.7) participants from private and government universities. It was hypothesized that Personality traits especially Neuroticism, being phubbed and subjective well-being would have a relationship with each other. It was further hypothesized that mindfulness will have a moderating role in the predictive model. Five questionnaires were used in this study along with the demographic form i.e. The Generic Scale of Being Phubbed (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2018), The Generic Scale of Phubbing, (Chotpitayasunondh & Douglas, 2018), The Big-Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999), and Mindfulness Self Efficacy Scale-R (MSES_R) by Cayoun and Shires (2017).The feeling of fear of missing out was measured by the scale of FOMO (Przybylski et al., 2013). All Assessment measures were practiced with the permission of authors. The data was analyzed by using Multiple Regression analysis, and SEM for variables. It was revealed that FOMO has a significant relationship with trait of Neuroticism and Phubbing along with being phubbed. It was also revealed that that mindfulness played a moderating role in the relationship between FOMO and neuroticism for Phubbing.