Influence on the fear of missing out (FoMO sindrome) on students’ personality

Abstract

This paper will focus on the problem of addiction from social media of adolescents and its influence on users’ academic performance and general identity. Also, this paper will outline actions, that people can take against given problem. The suggestions that can be drawn from the research results will include the ways to avoid some illnesses as FoMO syndrome or addictions from the internet. The objectives of this research were to assess the prevalence of how FoMO syndrome is familiar among adolescents, to know how well people know about syndrome and examine patterns of the association between real and virtual life, socio-demographic, mental health characteristics among schoolchildren of Kazakhstan, Karaganda. The aim of the study is to define problematic social media use and level of fear of missing out developments in social media (FoMO) in adolescents.