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The Fear Of Missing Out Phenomenon And Belongingness In Secondary Students, Minnie Mcbride
The Fear Of Missing Out Phenomenon And Belongingness In Secondary Students, Minnie Mcbride
Education | Master's Theses
In the networks of student lives and the pervasive presence of social media in their lives, there is an increasingly important need to understand the dynamics that affect students’ well being and availability to being present with learning. This qualitative study sought to understand how FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), defined as “a pervasive apprehension that others might be having rewarding experiences from which one is absent” (Przybylski et. al, 2013, p. 1841), impacts students of color at one independent secondary school in Northern California and has been documented as having an impact on learning, health, and safety. The researcher …