Approximately, 71% of college students experience academic burnout symptoms during their college career (George Citrone, 2021). Burnout is a feeling of mental, physical, and emotional exhaustion due to the perception of high levels of stress. Burnout is an issue that affects many students and relates to excessive drinking. Blacking out is defined as a period of alcohol induced amnesia where people are not able to remember their activities once being sober. FOMO (fear of missing out) is a form of anxiety one experiences by not going to an event or feeling left out. People can have many different triggers, one of which is social media posts. It has been shown that people who are exposed to more drinking on social media have a higher likelihood of consuming alcohol themselves. The data for this study was collected from an annual ongoing survey conducted at a midsize midwestern university. The survey measured the students’ qualification of being in academic burnout by using the Maslach Burnout scale for Academic Burnout and measures FOMO using The FOMO and College Alcohol use scale by Pryzbylski et. al. With the results, I intend to see a correlation between tendency to black out when experiencing high levels of academic burnout and FOMO. Information from this study could be used to build interventions or prevention efforts in college students.
Author(s): Maya Nathan & Rose Marie Ward, Ph.D.
Advisor(s): Rose Marie Ward, Department of Psychology
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