The Relationship Among College Students’ Basic Psychological Needs,Fear Of Missing Out,Problematic Internet Use And Emotion Reactivity

With the continuous development of the Internet and the popularity of smart phones,college students generally spend a long time using the Internet.The phenomenon of problematic internet use is still worthy of attention.Basic psychological needs are innate,intrinsic and necessary psychological needs of the organism.When basic psychological needs are not met,the individual lacks the motivation to support its development towards vitality,integration and health.When the basic psychological needs of the individual can not met,they will show some negative behaviors,and the problem internet use is one of them.Fear of missing out refers to a kind of diffuse anxiety caused by the fear of losing other people’s wonderful experience and harvest.When the basic psychological needs of the individual are blocked,this state will induce the diffuse anxiety experience of fear of missing out.When individuals experience a higher level of fear of missing out,they tend to get information about others in the fastest way.So individuals will increase their use of the internet.Emotion reactivity refers to the intensity or vehemence of emotions experienced by individuals during the period from exposure to emotional stimuli to return to the baseline level of emotional arousal(emotional persistence).Emotion reactivity is the innate response characteristics of individuals.Under the same conditions,individuals with different emotion reactivity experience different intensity of emotions.When their basic psychological needs are not met,individuals with high emotion reactivity will experience stronger fear of missing out.This study holds that fear of missing out plays a mediating role between the satisfaction of college students’ basic psychological needs and problematic internet use.Emotion reactivity plays a moderating role in the relationship between basic psychological needs and fear of missing out.Firstly,this study revised Fear of Missing Out scale(FoMOs)into Chinese version.Then,questionnaire was used to explore the relationship between these four factors.The results showed that:(1)There are gender differences in the total score of college students’ basic psychological needs and the dimension of relatedness need.The score of boys is lower than that of girls.The main effect of relationship needs in grade is significant,and the degree of relatedness need satisfaction of freshmen is significantly higher than that of juniors and seniors.(2)The fear of missing out of only-child was significantly higher than that of nononly-child;the main effect of fear of loss in specialty was significant,and the level of fear of missing out of science students was significantly lower than that of liberal arts students and engineering students.(3)The score of problematic Internet use of non-only children was significantly higher than that of only children.354 people belonged to the normal group,accounting for 53.96% of the total population,167 people belonged to the Internet dependent group,accounting for 25.46% of the total population,135 people belonged to the Internet addiction group,accounting for 20.58% of the total population.(4)The major effect of college students’ emotion reactivity was significant.The emotion reactivity of liberal arts students was significantly higher than that of science and engineering students.There was no significant difference between science students and engineering students in emotion reactivity.(5)The scores of basic psychological needs were negatively correlated with fear of missing out,problematic internet use and emotion reactivity;fear of missing out was positively correlated with problematic internet use and emotion reactivity;problematic internet use was negatively correlated with emotion reactivity.(6)Structural equation model results showed that basic psychological needs can directly and negatively predict the use of problematic internet use,and fear of missing out mediate the relationship of them.Emotion reactivity was a moderating role between basic psychological needs and fear of missing out.Compared with high emotion reactivity group,the predictive role of basic psychological needs of low emotion reactivity group is more strength than that of high emotion reactivity group.Among the individuals with lower emotion reactivity,the indirect predictive effect of fear of missing out between basic psychological needs and problem network use was stronger.