Extrinsic academic motivation and social media fatigue: Fear of missing out and problematic social media use as mediator
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Extrinsic academic motivation and social media fatigue: Fear of missing out and problematic social media use as mediators Yanni Shen 1 & Shiyi Zhang 1 & Tao Xin 1 Accepted: 20 November 2020 # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Studies have rarely investigated the association between extrinsic motivation and social media fatigue. This study aims to examine the mediating role of Fear of missing out (FOMO) and problematic social media use in the association between extrinsic academic motivation and social media fatigue. A total of 399 college students (43% males) completed measures of extrinsic academic motivation, FOMO, problematic social media use, and social media fatigue. The results showed that FOMO mediated the relationship between extrinsic academic motivation and problematic social media use; problematic social media use mediated the association between FOMO and social media fatigue; extrinsic academic motivation fostered social media fatigue either through FOMO or problematic social media use, or through these two factors together; and the indirect mediation effects between extrinsic academic motivation and social media fatigue through problematic social media use were larger than the single mediation effect of FOMO and their serial mediation effects. In addition, the indirect effects of the three subconstructs of extrinsic academic motivation (external regulation, introjected regulation, and identified regulation) on social media fatigue follow a trend of gradual decline. The findings and implications of this study are presented and discussed. Keywords Extrinsic academic motivation . Fear of missing out . Problematic social media use . Social media fatigue
Introduction Social media has greatly changed the ways in which people communicate and interact with each other. A report published by Global Web Index (2019) found that globally, social media users spend an average of 143 min per day on social networks and messaging, and this is longer for users aged 16–24 years. Using social media, individuals can stay in touch with their friends, share moments, and find entertaining content. Together with these conveniences, social media brought undesirable effects. Studies have found that people tend to avoid social media due to feelings of being overwhelmed by information, which is called social media fatigue (Bright, Kleiser, & Grau, 2015). Social media fatigue could result in potential negative outcomes, such as academic performance decrement (Malik, Dhir, Kaur, & Johri, 2020) and depression
* Tao Xin [email protected] 1
Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, No. 19, XinJieKouWai St., HaiDian District, Beijing 100875, People’s Republic of China
(Dhir, Yossatorn, Kaur, & Chen, 2018). Prior research has investigated the antecedents of social media fatigue to better understand where this avoidance is rooted and how to avoid negative consequences (e.g., Cao, Khan, Zaigham, & Khan, 2019). However, there have be
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