THE MEDIATING ROLE OF FEAR OF MISSING OUT IN THE EFFECT OF SOCIAL MEDIA USE ON BRAND LOYALTY AND CONSUMER INNOVATION

The aim of this study is to reveal the effect of the fear of missing out on social media on brand loyalty and consumer innovativeness, therefore. By creating a model for this purpose, hypotheses have been formed to evaluate the direct effects of social media use on brand loyalty and consumer innovativeness, as well as the indirect effects of the fear of missing out on the mediator variable. The data set was carried out with 1166 usable online questionnaires, obtained from students studying at public universities in the provinces of Antalya, Burdur and Isparta, which are expressed as the Western Mediterranean Region. SPSS 22.0 and SmartPLS 3.3.3. programs were used in the analysis of the data. As a result of the conducted analysis, it was concluded that the use of social media has a direct effect on the fear of missing out, brand loyalty and consumer innovativeness; the fear of missing out has a direct impact on brand loyalty and consumer innovation; the fear of missing out has a mediating role in the effect of social media use on consumer innovativeness and brand loyalty. In addition, the negative effect of consumer innovativeness on brand loyalty did not yield significant results.