Impact of social media addiction on college students’ academic procrastination: a chain mediated effect of lack of self-control and fear of missing out
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Aim: Social media addiction is increasingly receiving global attention, and may exacerbate the mental health problems and academic procrastination in college students. However, the complex relationship and underlying mechanisms between social media addiction and academic procrastination remain unclear. This study aimed to explore how social media addiction affects academic procrastination in college students, and to identify the chain mediating role played by lack of self-control and fear of missing out in this relationship, toward the development of effective interventions for mental health and learning performance. Method: This cross-sectional survey study recruited 825 college students from 30 provincial-level administrative regions in China through online platforms in June 2025. Four mature scales were used to measure social media addiction, academic procrastination, lack of self-control, and fear of missing out, and Bootstrap method was used to test the mediating effect hypothesis. Result: Social media addiction, fear of missing out, and lack of self-control positively predicted college students’ academic procrastination. Lack of self-control and fear of missing out not only played separate mediating roles between social media addiction and academic procrastination, but also jointly constituted a chain mediation between them. Discussion: This study expands the research on the relationship between social media addiction and academic procrastination, providing new insights into reducing the negative impact of social media addiction in the digital age, improving college students’ academic performance, and promoting their mental health.
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The mechanism through which state boredom translates into procrastination remains empirically underexplored, particularly among Generation Z.
“While prior research has independently established significant associations between boredom, social media addiction, and procrastination, the mechanism through which state boredom translates into procrastination remains empirically underexplored, particularly among Generation Z (Xie et al., 2023;Tang & He, 2025).”
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The Discussion section links social media addiction with academic procrastination and mentions boredom as a possible consequence of heavy social media use. It does not address whether the mechanism from state boredom to procrastination is empirically underexplored, particularly among Generation Z (searched: state boredom, Generation Z, research gap). No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Tang, Y., & He, W.
- Affiliations
- Shenzhen University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- He, Weiguang
- ORCID
- Tang, Yuxi
- Venue
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2025-10-20
- Volume
- 16
- Pages
- 1668567-1668567
- ISSN
- 1664-1078 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC12580371
- OpenAlex
- W4415363899
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 114
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12
- FWCI
- 20.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Frontiers in Psychology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Cyberloafing and Workplace Behavior
- Keywords
- social media addiction, academic procrastination, university students, self-control, fear of missing out, serial mediation, mental health, academic performance
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