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Objective: This study examined the effects of family differentiation and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies on interpersonal anxiety in university students and investigated whether each maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy moderated the relationship between family differentiation and interpersonal anxiety. Methods: The participants were 263 university students (129 male; 134 female) from seven universties in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. Interpersonal anxiety, family differentiation, and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies were measured via the Social Anxiety Scale, Differentiation in the Family Scale, and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, respectively. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics and hierarchical regressions. Results and Conclusion: The results indicated that the family differentiation level decreased the students’ interpersonal anxiety level, whereas the levels of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (self-blame, blaming others, catastrophizing) increased interpersonal anxiety. In addition, self-blame strategy moderated the effect of family differentiation on interpersonal anxiety. That is, the influence of family differentiation on interpersonal anxiety was greater when the level of self-blame strategy was high, compared to when it was low.