Professor of Psychology Miriam Liss and four students from her research seminar had a paper accepted for publication by the journal Personality and Individual Differences. The paper is titled “How Extraversion, Neuroticism, Attachment Style and Fear of Missing Out Predicted Social Media Use and Addiction.”
Liss and her students found that fear of missing out was a powerful predictor of social media addiction.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886917302891