To all the skins I’ve bought before: The influence of consumer-centric fear of missing out (FoMO) and its antecedents on the consumption of nonfunctional virtual items in free-to-play video game environments

• Main Authors: Montalbo, Gillian Maegan Rosales, Orate, Yvan Kyle Tancinco, Parrocho, Jem Rhey Benignos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2023
• Subjects: Consumer behavior; Fear of missing out; Free-to-play games; Video gamers—Psychology; Applied Behavior Analysis; Marketing; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_dsi/171; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_dsi/article/1169/viewcontent/To_All_The_Skins_I_ve_Bought_Before2__The_Influence_of_Consumer_ce.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

With the far-reaching expansion of social media, FoMO, or the “fear of missing out,” has risen to be a pervasive social phenomenon in modern pop culture. This study extends the FoMO literature by examining the complex set of relationships that exist between the individual-level antecedents of consum...