<![CDATA[This study examined the associations between emotion regulation strategies and coping strategy dimensions among Islamic boarding school students (santri) using a multidimensional approach. Although previous studies have reported relationships between emotion regulation and coping, limited attention has been given to the specific dimensions of both constructs within the pesantren context. A quantitative cross-sectional correlational design was employed involving 87 santri drawn from one Islamic boarding school in Bandung, Indonesia. Data were collected using the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Brief COPE Inventory, and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The results showed that cognitive reappraisal was significantly and positively associated with emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping, but not with activity-focused coping. Expressive suppression did not show significant associations with any coping dimension in the tested model. The model showed moderate explanatory power for emotion-focused and problem-focused coping, but weak explanatory power for activity-focused coping. These findings suggest that cognitive reappraisal is more closely related to adaptive coping dimensions among santri, whereas expressive suppression may have a limited or context-dependent relationship with coping. Given the cross-sectional design and single-site sample, the findings should be interpreted as associative and context-specific rather than causal.]]>
