Objective       To investigate the relationship of soldiers’ emotion regulation

emotion experience and psychological stress.       Methods        Psychological Stress Self-Evaluation Test (PSET)

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) were adopted to evaluate 160 male soldiers by random sampling from a group of soldiers. There were 153 valid questionnaires obtain

ed.       Results        Psychological stress was positively correlated with negative emotion experience (

r

=0.62

P

<

0.01) and frequency of expression suppression strategy (

r

=0.22

P

<

0.01)

but had no correlation with positive emotion experience and frequency of cognitive reappraisal strategy (

P

>0.05). Negative emotion experience was positively correlated with frequency of expression suppression strategy (

r

=0.19

P

<

0.05)

but was not correlated with positive emotion experience and frequency of cognitive reappraisal strategy (

P

>0.05). Positive emotion experience was positively correlated with frequency of cognitive reappraisal strategy (

r

=0.20

P

<

0.05). Soldiers’ negative emotion experience fully mediated the relation between psychological stress and frequency of expression suppression.       Conclusion        Emotion regulation affects soldiers’ psychological stress through emotion experience.