TY - BOOK AU - AU - Wei, Meifen. ED - ED - ED - Vogel, David L. ED - SN - 0022-0167 PY - 0000///46 CY - January 2005. PB - KW - KW - 2 KW - 0 KW - 6 KW - 20 KW - Intergroup relations KW - Social interactions KW - Anxiety KW - College students KW - sears0 N1 - This study examined the mediating role of affect regulation among attachment, negative mood, and interpersonal problems. Participants were 229 college students at a large midwest university. Structural equation modeling indicated attachment anxiety and avoidance contributed to negative mood and interpersonal problems through different and distinct affect regulation strategies (i.e., emotional reactivity or emotional cutoff). The association between attachment anxiety, negative mood, and interpersonal problems was mediated only by emotional reactivity (not emotional cutoff). Conversely, the association between attachment avoidance, negative mood, and interpersonal problems was mediated only by emotional cutoff (not emotional reactivity). Furthermore, emotional reactivity and emotional cutoff explained 36% of the variance in negative mood; attachment, emotional reactivity, and emotional cutoff explained 75% of the variance in interpersonal problems; 5 ER -