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This study examined these associations in university students in T\u00fcrkiye while distinguishing Personal from Social FoMO and acceptance\/inclusion from rejection\/exclusion. An online cross-sectional survey was completed by 499 students aged 18\u201330\u202fyears (M\u202f=\u202f22.13, SD\u202f=\u202f3.23; 76.4% female). Factor structure and internal consistency were examined before Pearson correlations, hierarchical regression with HC3 robust standard errors, relative-importance analysis, and sensitivity analyses were conducted. At the zero-order level, both FoMO facets and loneliness were negatively associated with flourishing, whereas acceptance\/inclusion and reverse-scored rejection\/exclusion were positively associated with flourishing (all\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001). The final seven-predictor model explained 51.2% of flourishing variance. Loneliness showed a small negative unique association (\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f\u22120.136,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.016), acceptance\/inclusion the largest positive association (\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.526,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.001), and reverse-scored rejection\/exclusion a smaller positive association (\n                    <jats:italic>\u03b2<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.138,\n                    <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                    \u202f=\u202f0.023); neither FoMO facet had a significant unique coefficient. Acceptance\/inclusion and loneliness remained significant after explicitly relational Flourishing Scale items were removed, whereas the rejection\/exclusion coefficient did not. These findings describe concurrent associations rather than a causal sequence, and they point to no specific intervention target. The cross-sectional self-report design, convenience and snowball sampling, and female-predominant sample limit causal inference and generalizability.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3389\/fnbeh.2026.1914187","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]],"date-time":"2026-09-29T05:50:36Z","timestamp":1790661036000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Flourishing in university students: cross-sectional associations with personal and social FoMO, loneliness, and belonging"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"20","author":[{"given":"Osman","family":"Akay","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Social Work, Seydikemer School of Applied Sciences, Mu\u011fla S\u0131tk\u0131 Ko\u00e7man University","place":["Mu\u011fla, T\u00fcrkiye"]},{"name":"Department of Social Work, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University","place":["Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"497","DOI":"10.1037\/0033-2909.117.3.497","article-title":"The need to belong: desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation","volume":"117","author":"Baumeister","year":"1995","journal-title":"Psychol. 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