Moderating role of fear of missing out in the relationship between narcissism and aggression among social media users

Abstract

The aim of conducting present study was to examine the moderating role of Fear of Missing Out in the re lationship between Narcissism and aggression among social media users. Moreover, relationships of different demographics variables were also studied along with study variables. Narcisstic Personality Inventory NPl- i3 (Miller, Hoffman, Reidy, Zeichner & Campbell, 2013), Fear of Missing Out Scale (Przybylski et ai., 2013), and Aggression Questionnaire (Buss and Perry, 1992) were used to measure narcissism, fear of missing out and aggression respectively. The current study was consisted of two parts. The first part comprised of tryout phase that was aimed to demonstrate cultural appropriateness of the Scale. the sample of the tryout phase consisted on 20 social media users. The second part was devoted to fulfilling study proposed objectives of the study The sample of the main study consisted of 270 social media users of different universities located in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. The convenient sampling technique was used for the selection of sample. Result of the correlation showed significant positive relationship between narcissism and aggression. Result of moderation showed fear of missing out as a moderator strengthened the relationship between narcissism and aggression. Gender differences showed that women are high on aggression and men are hi gh on narcissism. With reference to social media usage, high users of social media scored higher on narcissism, fear of missing out. and aggression as compared to low social media users.