000150740 001__ 150740 000150740 005__ 20251017144648.0 000150740 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1002/jcop.23183 000150740 0248_ $$2sideral$$a142797 000150740 037__ $$aART-2025-142797 000150740 041__ $$aeng 000150740 100__ $$aGaeta González, Martha Leticia 000150740 245__ $$aFoMO and socio-emotional e-competencies as predictors of media multitasking, phubbing and cybergossip in university students: transnational differences between Mexico and Spain by gender 000150740 260__ $$c2025 000150740 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000150740 5203_ $$aThere are clear signs of the growing use of the internet across all cultures, which generate new behaviors in the virtual environment such as media multitasking, phubbing, and cybergossip, all associated with online risks and less positive modes of socialization. FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) along with virtual emotional experiences could be relevant predictors, where literature suggests that FoMO is a trigger for problematic social media use, and socio‐emotional e‐competencies facilitate adaptive behaviors in virtual environments. Hence, understanding which variables predict these phenomena is crucial and whether they can be generalized across different countries. The objective of this study is to analyze whether two dimensions of socio‐personal development used to interact in virtual environments, FoMO (Fear of Missing Out) and socio‐emotional e‐competencies (e‐COM), are predictors of different cyberbehaviors (cybergossip, phubbing and media multitasking) in university students from two different countries. It also aims to verify if socio‐emotional e‐competencies act as a moderator of this relationship. In order to achieve this, we used a sample of 1524 university students from Mexico and Spain (19.74 years old). The results of the path analysis models show that FoMO is the strongest predictor of the three online behaviors regardless of country and gender, especially in the case of phubbing. In addition, socio‐emotional e‐competencies help to explain the behaviors in a differential way for each country, and the dimension of e‐self‐control of impulsivity plays a moderating role in FoMO in the case of phubbing and media multitasking. Some differences between countries and genders are discussed. 000150740 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S57-23R 000150740 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess$$aby-nc-nd$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es 000150740 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion 000150740 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-6492-2248$$aOrejudo Hernández, Santos$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000150740 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-2515-9029$$aCebollero-Salinas, Ana$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000150740 7102_ $$14001$$2215$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Ciencias de la Educación$$cÁrea Didáctica y Organiz. Esc. 000150740 7102_ $$14009$$2735$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDpto. Psicología y Sociología$$cÁrea Psicolog.Evolut.Educac 000150740 773__ $$g53, 2 (2025), e23183 [17 pp.]$$pJ. commun. psychol.$$tJournal of Community Psychology$$x0090-4392 000150740 8564_ $$s789906$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150740/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-02-02 000150740 8564_ $$s1977423$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150740/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yPostprint$$zinfo:eu-repo/date/embargoEnd/2026-02-02 000150740 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:150740$$particulos$$pdriver 000150740 951__ $$a2025-10-17-14:35:22 000150740 980__ $$aARTICLE