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Psychology: Research and Review

Table 2 Demographic data associated with FoMO

From: Validation and psychometric properties of the Indonesian version of the Fear of Missing Out Scale in adolescents

Variables

Mean

SD

df

t/F

p-value

Sex

 Men

38.04

10.49

208

0.99

0.32

 Women

37.16

10.44

428

  

Age

 16–20

36.68

12.30

518

0.58

0.57

 20–24

38.22

11.17

118

  

Ethnicity

 Javanese

37.35

10.23

503

−1.79

0.07*

 Non-Javanese

39.29

11.42

133

  

Amount of monthly parent’s income

  <1 million IDR

37.00

8.23

84

2.01

0.13

 1–3 million IDR

36.96

10.50

331

  

 >3 million IDR

38.65

10.88

220

  

The most used social media

 YouTube

31.55

8.95

39

6.84

0.00**

 Instagram

39.96

10.10

132

  

 WhatsApp

37.69

10.16

221

  

 LINE

37.86

11.35

205

  

 Others (Facebook, Twitter)

36.61

10.20

36

  

Duration of accessing social media

 1–3 h

36.31

10.49

192

4.98

0.07*

 4–6 h

37.86

10.22

370

  

 >6 h

40.95

11.20

73

  
  1. *Comparison is significant at the 0.1 level (2-tailed)
  2. **Comparison is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)