Abstract

• The main purpose of this study was to investigate the moderation effect of fear of missing out on the relationship between mindfulness and nomophobia of undergraduate students from Sagaing University of Education. The quantitative research design and stratified random sampling method were used in this study. This study was conducted through correlational design. The sample of the study comprised 1000 undergraduate students (496 female and 504 male) who were randomly chosen from first year, second year, third year, fourth year and fifth year students in Sagaing University of Education as participants of the study. In this study, Nomophobia Questionnaire (Yildirim & Correia, 2015), Five Facets Mindfulness Questionnaire (Baer, Smith, Hopkins, Kiretemeyer & Toney, 2006) and Fear of Missing Out Scale (Przybylski, Murayama, DeHaan & Gladwell, 2013) were used to measure nomophobia, mindfulness and fear of missing out of students. The results revealed that most of the students in Sagaing University of Education showed moderate (56.5%) and severe (35.2%) level of nomophobia. The moderated hierarchical multiple regression analysis result showed that fear of missing out acts as a moderator between mindfulness and nomophobia.