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This study aimed to investigate whether environmental sensitivity moderates the associations between cognitive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., <jats:italic>rumination<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>blaming others<\/jats:italic>) and mental health.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>In this three-wave longitudinal study, participants (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20091,233, 585, and 349 at Times 1, 2, and 3, respectively) completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-short and Kessler 10 scale at all the measurement points as well as the 10-item version of the Highly Sensitive Person scale and some covariates only at Time 1.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Latent growth model analyses indicated that the <jats:italic>blaming others<\/jats:italic> strategy had contrastive effects on changes in mental health by sensitivity level; the increase in <jats:italic>refocusing on planning<\/jats:italic> was associated with improved mental health over time only for highly sensitive individuals; and the <jats:italic>rumination<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>catastrophizing<\/jats:italic> strategies were the most important risk factors for mental health problems, although their effects differed slightly by sensitivity level.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>The associations between some of the cognitive strategies and mental health differ by environmental sensitivity level. 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