Relationships among Christian' Avoidant Attachment, Dysfunctional Beliefs, and Fear of Missing Out: Moderated Mediation Effect of Adaptive-Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation

The purpose of this study was to verify whether adult Christians’ dysfunctional beliefs would mediate the influence of their avoidant attachment over their ‘fear of missing out(FoMO)’. This study examined whether the adult Christians’ dysfunctional belief would mediate the relations between their avoidant attachment and FoMO. As a result, it was found that their cognitive emotion regulation would mediate the relations between their dysfunctional beliefs and FoMO. For this study, 334 adult Christians aged between 20 and 60 and living in Korea was sampled. As a result, it was found that Christian' avoidant attachment affected their FoMO through dysfunctional beliefs and had a partial mediating effect. Maladaptive cognitive emotional regulation regulated the relationship between dysfunctional beliefs and FoMO. In conclusion, Christian who show avoidant attachments in human relationships experienced FoMO even though they tried to distance themselves from others due to dysfunctional beliefs and maladaptive cognitive emotional regulation.