Academic procrastination is prevalent among college students and has numerous negative impacts. This study aims to explore the influencing factors of academic procrastination behavior in college students, providing empirical research evidence for reducing it. College students with a strong future time perspective tend to have a greater sense of foresight, stronger planning ability, and proactive behavior in academics, resulting in less academic procrastination. Additionally, students with a strong future time perspective tend to have more friends and a broader social circle, experiencing less loneliness. Conversely, individuals experiencing high levels of loneliness tend to rely more on social media, seeking relief from loneliness by exploring others’ experiences or positive events and fearing missing out on social information, which leads to a fear of missing out. College students with a high fear of missing out spend significant time and energy focusing on social information or others’ experiences daily, neglecting their academics, which leads to academic lag and procrastination. Therefore, this study aims to explore the impact of future time perspective on academic procrastination and investigate the mediating roles of loneliness and fear of missing out in this relationship. A total of 1034 college students from 5 universities were surveyed, measuring academic procrastination, future time perspective, loneliness, and fear of missing out, and analyzed using SPSS 22.0.The results showed that: (1) Future time perspective significantly negatively predicts college students’ academic procrastination, with a direct effect size of 0.111; (2) Future time perspective indirectly influences academic procrastination through the mediating role of loneliness, with an indirect effect size of 0.047; (3)Loneliness and fear of missing out play multiple mediating roles in future time perspective predicting academic procrastination, with an indirect effect size of 0.029.