AUTHOR=Lin Zhengzheng 

TITLE=Emotion Regulation Strategies and Sense of Life Meaning: The Chain-Mediating Role of Gratitude and Subjective Wellbeing

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 13 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810591

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.810591

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=This study aimed to explore the mechanism of college students’ meaning of life. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire,the Gratitude Questionnaire Six-Item Form, the General Well-being Schedule ,the Meaning in Life Questionnaire were used to survey 1312 college students (Mage = 19.26, SD = 1.15). The results showed that (1) the cognitive reappraisal and expression suppression strategies were significantly positively and negatively correlated with gratitude, subjective well-being, and the sense of life meaning, respectively. (2) The former indirectly predicted the sense of life meaning through the chain mediation of gratitude → subjective well-being. (3) Further, the expression suppression strategy indirectly predicted college students’ meaning of life through the chain intermediary of gratitude → subjective well-being. This study illuminated the roles of emotion regulation strategy, gratitude, and subjective well-being in influencing the sense of life meaning among the Chinese college students.