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Determining the Influence of Digital Literacy on Learning Personal Competence: The Moderating Role of Fear of Missing Out

Hendra Hidayat , Zadrian Ardi , Ahmad Istiqlal Ahlunnazak , Dani Harmanto , Chibueze Tobias Orji , Mohd Rizal Mohd Isa

One of the ways to enhance and improve the quality of learning delivery is through the use of technology, particularly the Internet, which facilitates.

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One of the ways to enhance and improve the quality of learning delivery is through the use of technology, particularly the Internet, which facilitates faster and easier access to information. This research aims to explore the degree to which factors such as digital literacy, metacognitive awareness, meaningful learning, habits of using smartphones, and personal learning competence are related to one another. Both the relationship between metacognitive awareness and personal learning competence, as well as the relationship between smartphone habits and personal learning competence, are moderated by a moderating variable known as the fear of missing out. Fear of missing out is a moderating variable. Structural equation modeling, specifically partial least squares, was employed to analyze data from 597 engineering students. SmartPLS version 4 was the tool used for this analysis. The study found that the moderating variable, fear of missing out, significantly impacts metacognitive awareness, learning personal competence, and smartphone habits, making it a crucial factor to investigate. This result is significant because it is a variable that influences the learning that students go through for their education and because it is an extremely important thing to investigate.

Keywords: Learning personal competence, fear of missing out (FOMO), metacognitive awareness, digital literacy, meaningful learning.

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