Social media use and everyday cognitive failure: investigating the fear of missing out and social networks use disorder relationship

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of the investigated groups (1 = social media users; 2 = social media non-users, 3 = social media non-users, but SNS-AT > 6)

	Group	N	Mean	Median	SD	Minimum	Maximum
Age	1	3618	50.89	53.00	14.808	18	89
	2	1148	59.47	61.00	12.748	20	91
	3	548	57.51	60.00	14.534	18	94
Trait FoMO	1	3618	12.92	12.00	4.132	5	25
	2	1148	11.29	11.00	3.714	5	23
	3	548	12.82	12.00	3.902	5	25
State FoMO	1	3618	14.09	14.00	4.687	7	33
	2	1148	10.57	10.00	3.368	7	25
	3	548	12.76	12.00	4.143	7	28
SNS-AT (SNUD)	1	3618	11.12	10.00	4.535	6	30
	2	1148	6.00	6.00	0.000	6	6
	3	548	10.67	9.00	3.821	7	30
CFQ (Cognitive Failure Questionnaire)*	1	3618	1.46	1.41	0.512	0.156	3.97
	2	1148	1.30	1.23	0.481	0.188	3.50
	3	548	1.46	1.41	0.515	0.313	3.19

FoMO: Fear of Missing Out, SNS-AT: Social Networking Sites-Addiction Test, SNUD: Social Networks Use Disorder; * please note that no sum scores across items were created here

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