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This study aims to understand how Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) influences false mobile sensations and the role of mindfulness in this relationship.

The phantom vibration syndrome: fear of missing out, digital attention bias, digital attachment, and mindfulness in predicting false mobile sensations

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This study aims to understand how Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) influences false mobile sensations and the role of mindfulness in this relationship.
A two-phase time-lagged survey design was utilized to collect data from 474 undergraduate students.
Analyses involved assessing mediation effects and testing the moderated-mediation effect of mindfulness using JASP and the PROCESS macro.
FoMO significantly predicts false mobile sensations among participants.
The relationship is mediated by digital attentional bias and digital attachment, indicating increased reliance on mobile devices due to FoMO.
Mindfulness moderates the effects, reducing the impact of FoMO on attentional bias and digital attachment.

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Randomized trial investigates how fear of missing out affects false mobile sensations in students, indicating the need for mindfulness strategies.

Prince Addai (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial investigates how fear of missing out affects false mobile sensations in students, indicating the need for mindfulness strategies.