Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in the Association Between Unfinished Business and Meaning in Life among Peruvian University Students: an Inconsistent (suppression) Mediation Model

Unfinished business has been associated with a diminished sense of meaning in life. The regulatory mechanisms that might account for this association have not, however, been examined empirically. The present study examined whether cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERS) explain part of that association among university students of the San Martín Region, in the Peruvian Amazon. A cross-sectional explanatory study with an associative strategy was conducted with 617 participants (M = 22.1 years, SD = 3.6; 54.0