This three-wave longitudinal study ( n = 1341) examined between- and within-person effects linking fear of missing out (FoMO) and social media use to psychological need satisfaction and well-being over time. As such, this study tests the premise that FoMO can be understood as a self-regulatory limbo, arising from deficits in psychological need satisfaction and/or lower well-being. This limbo is suggested to lead to reciprocal relations between these constructs, yet no study so far has formally put this to the test. At the between-person level, all variables were related. At the within-person level, part of a reciprocal trajectory for FoMO and social media use was found. FoMO at T1 predicted social media use at T2, which subsequently predicted FoMO at T3. The results provide partial evidence of a self-regulatory limbo and raise questions about current theorizing in which such a process is believed to arise from deficits in psychological need satisfaction and psychological well-being.

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害怕错过和社交媒体使用：关于心理需求满足和心理健康之间相互作用的三波纵向研究

这项三波纵向研究（ n = 1341）考察了人与人之间和人内部的影响，将错过恐惧（FoMO）和社交媒体使用与长期的心理需求满足和幸福感联系起来。因此，本研究测试了这样一个前提：“恐惧恐惧症”可以被理解为一种自我调节的边缘状态，是由于心理需求满足不足和/或幸福感较低而产生的。这种不确定性被认为会导致这些结构之间的相互关系，但迄今为止还没有研究正式对此进行测试。在人与人之间的层面上，所有变量都是相关的。在人际层面上，我们发现了FOMO和社交媒体使用的部分相互轨迹。T1 的 FoMO 预测了 T2 的社交媒体使用情况，随后又预测了 T3 的 FoMO。研究结果提供了自我调节困境的部分证据，并对当前的理论提出了质疑，在当前的理论中，这种过程被认为是由心理需求满足和心理健康的缺陷引起的。