Objective To explore the relationship between college students’ fear of missing and Wechat addiction. Methods A total of 442 college students from 3 universities in Hunan Province were investigated with fear of missing scale and Wechat addiction scale for 3 months in 2 stages. Mplus 7.4 was used for cross-lagged regression analysis. Results There was a significant positive correlation between college students’ fear of missing and Wechat addiction(pre-test: r = 0.321, P < 0.01;post-test: r = 0.374, P < 0.01). College students’ initial fear of...