@article{article_1694359, title={Social Media Addiction, Psychological Flexibility, Self-Esteem, and Mindfulness: A Person-Centered Approach}, journal={International Journal of Educational Studies and Policy}, volume={6}, pages={310–328}, year={2025}, author={Kaya, Alican and Özok, Halil İbrahim}, keywords={Social media addiction, psychological flexibility, mindfulness, self-esteem}, abstract={Social media addiction has attracted research attention over the past decade. The reasons and factors that cause social media addiction remain undiscovered. Therefore, the research investigates novel factors using a person-centered approach. More specifically, the purpose of the present study is to determine the students’ profiles of social media addiction and to reveal the relationship between psychological flexibility, self-esteem, and mindfulness. Data was collected from 657 participants using convenience sampling. The research results indicated that university students have 4 distinct profiles. The profiles had characteristic: (i) Moderate user ‘High mindfulness, average social media addiction, but low self-esteem and psychological flexibility’, (ii) Balanced media engager ‘Average level of social media addiction, psychological flexibility, self-esteem, and mindfulness’, (iii) Tech-overuser ‘high social media addiction, but low psychological flexibility, self-esteem, and mindfulness’, (iv) Resilient low-addiction type ‘low social media addiction but high psychological flexibility, self-esteem, and mindfulness’. Mixture modeling approach-based studies incorporate complementary perspectives of the previous psychopathology literature. The findings may help practitioners target at-risk college students with high social media addiction but low psychological flexibility, self-esteem, and mindfulness and design programs to help them mitigate the effects of social media addiction.}, number={2}, publisher={Anıl Kadir Eranıl}