01438nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001800118653002200136653003600158653001600194100003700210700002600247700002500273700003000298245012300328300001000451490000700461520071200468022001401180020001401194       2023                            d  c04/2023bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aMental health10aPhysical activity10aEmotional regulation strategies10aAdolescents1 aMaría Trinidad Sánchez-Núñez1 aGloria Alfaro Portero1 aNoelia García-Rubio1 aPablo Fernández-Berrocal00aMental Health and their relationship with physical activity and emotional regulation strategies in Spanish adolescents  a63-700 v293 aNumerous studies have focused on variables related to preventing and promoting mental health in adolescence. The purpose of the present study was to analyze to what extent emotion regulation strategies mediate the effect of physical activity on adolescent mental health. The sample comprised 173 adolescents, who completed the “Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, CERQ”, the “Mental Health Scale, MH-5” and the “Physician-based Assessment and Counseling for Exercise, PACE”. The results showed adaptive emotion regulation strategies have a potentiating mediating effect between physical activity and mental health and this effect decreases with maladaptive emotion regulation strategies.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437