Cäzilia Loibl

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Supporting Information Filename Description joca70037-sup-0001-Appendix.docxWord 2007 document , 44.9 KB Appendix 1. Study sample. Appendix 2. Item correlations for variable “Difficulty making ends meet”. Appendix 3. Sample focal predictors, financial and demographic characteristics. Appendix 4. Coefficients of OLS regressions of financial outcomes on social media use, fear of missing out, and control measures. Appendix 5.

4.3.1 Dependent variable—Loneliness. Loneliness was measured with a single question, “In the past 7 days, how often have you felt lonely?”, an approach which has been used in other loneliness research [28]. Response options were taken from the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale [50] and included four categories: not at all or less than 1 day (coded as 1); 1–2 days (coded as 2); 3–4 (coded as 3) days; or 5–7 days (coded as 4). We used this original coding in our data analysis.

1 INTRODUCTION In this short “Trends and Applications” article, we provide an update on factors associated with financial stress among college students. This short article contributes new data from a particularly robust data collection effort and applies the stress process model (Pearlin, 1989) as extended by Drentea and Reynolds (2015) to the college student population.