The association between psychological burden related to COVID-19 and addictive social media use: Testing the mediational role of anxious affect

• Zahir Vally ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zahir.vally@uaeu.ac.ae

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Psychology, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0083-6006

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• Mai Helmy

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Department of Psychology, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Egypt

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