FomoNegativeAffect_cremer_2026_panas

9,220 responses from 461 respondents to 20 items.

One of 4 tables from the same source; this one measures Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS). The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionMeasures negative affectivity using PANAS negative affect items, divided into fear (6 items) and distress (4 items) subfactors. Reflects general emotional distress and anxiety.
ReferenceElhai, J. D., & Casale, S. (2026). Is fear of missing out (FOMO) differentially related to underlying dimensions of negative affectivity? Analyzing latent factors of rumination, depression, and negative affect. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2624434
DOI10.1080/10615806.2026.2624434
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://data.mendeley.com/datasets/pwfr54ss5p/1

Size and shape

Responses9,220
Respondents461
Items20
Response categories5
Responses per respondent20
Responses per item461
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleEducational
construct typeAffective/mental health
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)eng
construct namePositive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS)

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentPositive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson, Clark & Tellegen, 1988)
Mean words per item1
Mean characters per item7.400
Mean characters per response13
Flesch-Kincaid grade level52.320

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).not traced
itemIRW standard Item identifier.not traced
respIRW standard Response value.not traced
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate not traced
cov_sexCovariate not traced

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("FomoNegativeAffect_cremer_2026_panas")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("FomoNegativeAffect_cremer_2026_panas")

How to cite

@article{Elhai_2026, title={Is fear of missing out (FOMO) differentially related to underlying dimensions of negative affectivity? Analyzing latent factors of rumination, depression, and negative affect}, ISSN={1477-2205}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2026.2624434}, DOI={10.1080/10615806.2026.2624434}, journal={Anxiety, Stress, &amp; Coping}, publisher={Informa UK Limited}, author={Elhai, Jon D. and Casale, Silvia}, year={2026}, month=feb, pages={1–13} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv557
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_2 v33.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/6m04-m698
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv33.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v40.0