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This cross-sectional study examined associations between cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, depression, anxiety, stress, and life satisfaction in 106 undergraduate students enrolled in a Social Education degree at a public university in Andalusia, Spain. Participants completed the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Satisfaction With Life Scale, and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21. Internal consistency was high across the six study dimensions (Cronbach's \u03b1 =.846\u2013.921; McDonald's \u03c9 =.848\u2013.921). Life satisfaction was negatively correlated with depression, anxiety, and stress, and the three distress dimensions were positively interrelated. In gender-adjusted hierarchical regressions, emotion-regulation scores explained additional variance in anxiety and stress, but not in depression or life satisfaction. Several associations were opposite to the directions commonly reported in the literature: cognitive reappraisal was positively associated with anxiety, whereas expressive suppression was negatively associated with anxiety and stress. The item-level structural model produced mixed fit evidence: RMSEA, CFI, and TLI\/NNFI were favorable, but SRMR, GFI, AGFI, NFI, and RFI indicated important limitations. Because indirect effects were not estimated and the data were cross-sectional, the model does not demonstrate mediation or causal pathways. 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