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This study analysed the relationships between adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, and emotional regulation using data collected from questionnaires designed to measure how much of the three affects individuals, and completed by 412 university students in Gwangju and the Chonnam region. SPSS 20.0 programme was used on this study for a correlation analysis and hierarchical multiple regression analysis, and Sobel Test was performed to verify the mediated effect. The results are as follows: Firstly, the study shows that there is a significant correlation between adult attachment, rejection sensitivity, and emotional regulation. The relationship between adult attachment and rejection sensitivity is positive, while there is a negative relationship between adult attachment and emotional regulation. The effect of rejection sensitivity is also shown to be negatively related to emotional regulation. Second, the result of analysing the mediated effect of the influence of rejection sensitivity on the relationship between adult attachment and emotional regulation shows that the two types of adult attachment affect emotional regulation by the same path. In other words, both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance are directly connected to emotional regulation, and are indirectly related to it when the effect of rejection sensitivity is a mediating factor. Thus, the result of this study shows that insecure attachment is caused by difficulties in controlling emotions. It prompts a negative perception of others in the affected individual by exacerbating the effect of rejection sensitivity, which is the sensitizing of a response to rejection from the nervous anticipation of it. This study, then, shows that it could be difficult for people who have a high level of rejection sensitivity to control negative emotions adaptively because of being overwhelmed by these emotions, which are due to the perceived rejection of themselves by others.