From low sense of control to problematic smartphone use severity during Covid-19 outbreak: The mediating role of fear of missing out and the moderating role of repetitive negative thinking

• Julia Brailovskaia ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Julia.Brailovskaia@rub.de

  Affiliation Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7607-1305

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• Jan Stirnberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2361-3323

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• Dmitri Rozgonjuk,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Molecular Psychology, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany, Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia

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• Jürgen Margraf,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5207-7016

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• Jon D. Elhai

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, United States of America

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