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The Impact of Aviation Management Students’ Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) Levels on Unemployment Anxiety

Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 393 - 405, 15.11.2023
https://doi.org/10.30518/jav.1315339

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the fear of missing out levels of aviation management undergraduate students have an impact on their unemployment anxiety. In this study, explanatory research method was applied. In this direction, a questionnaire was applied to the students of the aviation management department of a foundation university. The sample of the research consists of 137 undergraduate aviation management students. The data obtained as a result of the applied questionnaire were analyzed with the SPSS 25.0 package program. Exploratory factor analysis, independent t-test, one-way ANOVA analysis, pearson correlation analysis and cluster analysis were used in the study. As a result of the analyzes carried out, it was concluded that aviation management students' fear of missing out has an effect on unemployment anxiety.

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Year 2023, Volume: 7 Issue: 3, 393 - 405, 15.11.2023
https://doi.org/10.30518/jav.1315339

Abstract

References

  • Albayrak, E. S. (2021). Erasmus Students' Use of Social Media and "Fear of Missing Out" (FoMO). Aksaray Journal of Communication, 3(1), 86-104.
  • Ateş, S. S. (2019). Anxiety of Unemployment Before the Graduation: Research on University Students in The Aviation Departments. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Management Inquiries. 3(5), 165-174.
  • Aydın, A. and Tiryaki, S. (2017). A study on the determination of the factors affecting the anxiety level of university students KTU sample. Kastamonu University Journal of Forestry Faculty, 17(4), 715-722.
  • Beyens, I., Frison, E. and Eggermont, S. (2016). I don’t want to miss a thing: Adolescents’ fear of missing out and its relationship to adolescents’ social needs, Facebook use, and Facebook related stress. Computers in Human Behavior, 64, 1-8.
  • Çakmak, Ö. and Hevedanlı, M. (2004). Factors Affecting Biology Teacher Candidates' Anxiety, XIII National Educational Sciences Congress, 6-9 July 2004, Inonu University, Faculty of Education, Malatya.
  • Çelik, F. and Özkara, B. Y. (2022). Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) Scale: Adaptation to Social Media Context and Testing of Psychometric Properties. Studies in Psychology, 42(1), 1-33.
  • Çopuroğlu, F. (2021). The Relationship Between Consumers' Social Media Use, FoMO and Hedonic Consumption. OPUS International Journal of Society Researches, 17(37), 4298-4326.
  • Dursun, S., and Aytaç, S. (2009). Unemployment Anxiety Among University Students. Journal of Uludag University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, 18(1), 71-84.
  • Field, A. (2009). Discovering Statistics Using SPSS. 3. edition. (Sage Publications, London)
  • Geylani, M. and Çiriş Yıldız, C. (2022). Development of Future Anxiety Scale in University Students: Validity and Reliability Study. Journal of Inonu University Vocational School of Health Services, 10(1), 284-300.
  • Gökler, M. E., Aydin, R., Ünal, E. and Metintaş, S. (2016). Evaluation of the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the Fear of Missing Out in Social Environments Scale. Anatolian Journal of Psychiatry, 17(1), 53–59.
  • Gücenmez, T. (2022). The Effects of Unemployment and Covid 19 Pandemic on Bauman's Understanding of Freedom and Uncertainty, HABITUS Journal of Sociology, (3), 207-232.
  • Hair, J. F., Black, W. C., Babin, B. J. and Anderson, R. E. (2019). Multivariate Data Analysis. 8. Edition. Cengage: United Kingdom.
  • International Labor Organization. (2020). World Employment and Social Outlook - Trends, 2020. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/dgreports/dcomm/publ/documents/publication/wcms_734455.p df, Access Date: 19.04.2023.
  • İslamoğlu, H. and Alnıaçık, Ü. (2019). Research Methods in Social Sciences. 6. edition (Beta, Istanbul).
  • Korkmazer, F. (2020). Investigation of University Students' Perceptions of Unemployment Anxiety. Business Economics and Management Research Journal, 3(2), 141-152.
  • Milyavskaya, M., Saffran, M., Hope, N. and Koestner, R. (2018). Fear of missing out: prevalence, dynamics, and consequences of experiencing FOMO. Motivation and Emotion, 42(5), 725-737.
  • Nakip, M. and Yaraş, E. (2017). SPSS Applied Marketing Research Techniques. Seçkin Publishing: Ankara.
  • Oberst, U., Wegmann, E., Stodt, B., Brand, M. and Chamarro, A. (2017). Negative consequences from heavy social networking in adolescents: The mediating role of fear of missing out. Journal of Adolescence, 55, 51-60.
  • Oxford Dictionary (2023) FOMO. https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fomo?q=fomo Access Date: 13.04.2023.
  • Özder, H., Birinci, M., Zaifoğlu, P. and Işıktaş, S. (2018). A Scale Development Study on Unemployment Anxiety of Preschool and Classroom Teacher Candidates. Work, Labour: Journal of Industrial Relations and Human Resources, 20(2), 43-56.
  • Pelek, S. (2022). Diploma Unemployment in Turkey: Labour Market Patterns of Unemployed University Graduates. Journal of Management and Economics Research, 20(1), 247-270.
  • Przybylski, A. K., Murayama, K., DeHaan, C. R. and Gladwell, V. (2013). Motivational, emotional, and behavioral correlates of fear of missing out. Computer in Human Behavior, 29(4), 1841-1848.
  • Riordan, B.C., Flett, J. A., Cody, L.M., Conner, T.S. and Scarf, D. (2021). The fear of missing out (fomo) and event- specific drinking: the relationship between fomo and alcohol use, harm, and breath alcohol concentration during orientation week. Curr Psychol, 40, 3691–3701
  • Şahin, M. (2019). Fear, Worry and Anxiety (Anxiety) Disorders. Eurasian Journal of Social and Economic Research, 6(10), 117-15.
  • Saraçlı, S. (2011). An application on the comparative analysis of rotation methods in factor analysis. Journal of Duzce University Graduate School of Health Sciences, 1(3), 22-26.
  • Statt, D. A. (1994). “Work, Non-Work and in-Between” in Psycology and the World of Work. Antony Rowe Ltd., Great Britain.
  • Tanhan, F., Özok, H. I. and Tayiz, V. (2022). Fear of Missing (FoMO): A Current Compilation. Current Approaches in Psychiatry, 14(1):74-85.
  • Tekin, A. (2015). Unemployment Anxiety of University Students: A Research on Suleyman Demirel University Students, Süleyman Demirel University Institute of Social Sciences, Isparta.
  • Turkish Statistical Institute (2022). Labour Statistics, June 2022. https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Isgucu- Istatistikleri-Haziran-2022-45651 Access Date: 20.02.2023.
  • Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (2022). Youth in Statistics, 2021. https://data.tuik.gov.tr/Bulten/Index?p=Istatistiklerle- Genclik-2021-45634. Access Date: 20.02.2023.
  • Wortham, J. (2011). Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It’s Your Facebook Wall. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/business/10ping.html Access Date: 14.04.2023.
  • Yıldız, E., Yeniçeri, E. N. and Öngel, K. (2019). Application and results of the state-trait anxiety scale (staı-tx) in randomly selected individuals. Smyrna Medical Journal, 1, 19-24.
  • Higher Education Institution (2023). Higher Education Programme Atlas. Access Date: 15.04.2023 https://yokatlas.yok.gov.tr/lisans-anasayfa.php
  • Yükselen. C. (2000). Marketing Research. 1st edition (Detay Publishing: Ankara).
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Primary Language English
Subjects Aerospace Structures
Journal Section Research Articles
Authors

Onur Tayfun 0000-0001-7106-2717

Publication Date November 15, 2023
Submission Date June 15, 2023
Acceptance Date September 13, 2023
Published in Issue Year 2023 Volume: 7 Issue: 3

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APA Tayfun, O. (2023). The Impact of Aviation Management Students’ Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) Levels on Unemployment Anxiety. Journal of Aviation, 7(3), 393-405. https://doi.org/10.30518/jav.1315339

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