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July 5, 2026Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

The mediating role of loneliness in the association between fear of missing out and social media addiction among university students

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ABArzu BulutBandırma Onyedi Eylül University

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Implication

Randomized trial examines the impact of loneliness on social media addiction among university students, suggesting intervention strategies.

Key Points

  • The study investigates how loneliness affects the relationship between fear of missing out and social media addiction.
  • Data collected from 331 university students using structural equation modeling
  • Assessments focused on emotional and social loneliness alongside four subdimensions of social media addiction
  • Emotional loneliness effects specifically analyzed in relation to virtual communication and virtual problem
  • Fear of missing out was significantly associated with emotional loneliness and all four subdimensions of social media addiction.
  • Emotional loneliness mediated the relationship between fear of missing out and virtual communication (B = 0.115, 95% CI [0.027, 0.216]) and virtual problem (B = 0.127, 95% CI [0.041, 0.219]).
  • Social loneliness did not significantly mediate the relationships evaluated.

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Arzu Bulut (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a49f5d7f5d1d45b2880076dhttps://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2026.2695060
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