Psychometric properties of the Fear of Missing out Scale (FoMOs) in Peruvian university students

Abstract

Summary. Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) refers to the restlessness that people experience when they are not included in the social activities of their peers, being one of the most used instruments for its study FoMOs. The objective was to determine the psychometric properties of FoMOs in Peruvian university students. FoMOs was applied in its version adapted by Gil et al. (2015) in 357 intentionally chosen Peruvian university students, mostly women (61.6%), aged between 16 and 27 years (Mage = 20.89; SDage = 2.85). The results indicate that FoMOs is a coherent and parsimonious one-dimensional measure (RMSEA = .036; CFI = .988; TLI = .985), which presents invariance by sex. Likewise, their scores converge with other variables. Thus, their scores they are reliability, consistent (ω = .895) and stable (ICC = .821). FoMOs is a valid and reliable measure, which presents invariance in male and female Peruvian university students.