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This study examined whether Negative Emotional Wellbeing Anxiety (NEWA) would mediate the effect of Negative Feelings (NF) and Negative Emotional Wellbeing Depression (NEWD) among students with congenital physical disabilities. Forty-six students with congenital physical disabilities (<jats:italic>mean age<\/jats:italic>: <jats:italic>20 years<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>SD = 2<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>05<\/jats:italic>; <jats:italic>45<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>65% females<\/jats:italic>) completed self-rating measures that included sociodemographic variables (age and sex), emotional state for Children to assess negative feelings, and an emotional distress protocol to assess NEWA and NEWD. Results show that NF was positively correlated with NEWA (<jats:italic>r =<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>69<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>p &lt;<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>001<\/jats:italic>) and NEWD (<jats:italic>r =<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>69<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>p &lt;<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>001<\/jats:italic>), and NEWA was positively correlated with NEWD (<jats:italic>r =<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>86<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>p &lt;<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>001<\/jats:italic>). Findings further reported that NEWA significantly mediated the positive relationship between NF and NEWD (<jats:italic>a*b =<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>37<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Bootstrap CI95 =<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>23 and<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>52<\/jats:italic>) [<jats:italic>Sobel test statistic of 4<\/jats:italic>.<jats:italic>82<\/jats:italic> (<jats:italic>p &lt;<\/jats:italic> .<jats:italic>001<\/jats:italic>)] among students with congenital physical disabilities. 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