Impact of Parental Psychological Control on Adolescent Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Mediated by Social Media Addiction

This research examined how perceived parental control can affect Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) in university students, while also considering the role of social media addiction as a mediator. The study was conducted using 320 university students from which data was collected employing standardized reliable scales for Perceived Parental Control, Social Media Addiction, and FoMO. Correlational and regression analyses showed significant positive relationships for all the three variables. The mediation analysis confirmed that social media addiction partially mediates the relationship between perceived parental control and FoMO, implying that controlling parenting styles can increase the resilience toward FoMO in excessive social media use. The suggested mediation effect again emphasizes parenting dynamics and digital behavior for youth's psychological outcomes and sets the need for awareness programs and preventive interventions targeting the family environment and media consumption habits.