The Correlation Between Fear of Missing Out and Subjective Well-Being Among Young Adulthood

Abstract

Today's young adults mostly can spend their time every day just playing social media. Social media has a positive and negative impact on its users. One of the negative impacts of social media use on young adults is anxiety left behind information or called fear of missing out (FOMO). This study aims to determine the correlation FOMO and level of satisfaction and individual welfare (subjective well-being) among young adulthood. In previous study, showed that inconsistency correlation between fear of missing out (FOMO) and subjective well-being on young adulthood. The purpose of this study was to see how much correlation FOMO with subjective well-being among young adults The sample of this study is those aged 18-25 years and actively use social media. They use social media for at more than 180 minutes every day. The number of participants was 246 people. Measurement of the research hypothesis using Pearson correlation. The results showed negative correlation between fear of missing out FOMO and subjective well-being among young adulthood (r = -0.179, p= 0.005, < 0.05). This indicates if FOMO increase, then young adults’ subjective well-being will be decrease, vice versa.