Introduction:One of the main problems in the student period is the issue of strong emotional attachment of people to the opposite sex and the failure of these relationships. Considering the many negative effects caused by the experience of emotional bereavement, the purpose of this research is to investigate the mediator role of alexithymia and self-compassion in the relationship between metacognitive strategies and resilience in students with emotional bereavement.
Materials&Methods:The current research is a path analysis correlation. The statistical population is all students of Torbat Jam and Mashhad Azad University who were studying in the academic year of 2023-2024 and had the experience of emotional bereavement. Among them, 216 people were selected by the purposeful sampling method. The resilience (Connor and Davidson, 2003), metacognitive states (Anil and Abedi, 1996), Toronto emotional ataxia (Bagby et al., 1994), and self-compassion (Neff et al., 2003) were measured. The experiment and data analysis were also done using Pearson's correlation coefficient and path analysis methods.
Results: The results indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between metacognitive strategies, resilience, and self-compassion, and a negative and significant relationship with emotional alexithymia. Also, the results of the bootstrap test showed that self-compassion strengthens the relationship between metacognitive strategies and resilience, and emotional dyslexia weakens this relationship.
Conclusion: Metacognition strategies, alexithymia, and self-compassion are effective on the resilience of students who have experienced emotional bereavement, and are of great importance in their treatment process.

Acknowledgments: The authors would like to thank all the participants of this study.

Availability of data and materials: The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of the results of this article.

Consent for publication: Not applicable.

Ethical approval and consent to participate: The participants were informed that their participation in the study was voluntary. The participants’ data were analyzed and reported anonymously and confidentially. The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Funding: This research was self-funded by the corresponding author.

Author Contributions:The first author contributed to the study design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript. The second author performed the statistical analysis, contributed to the interpretation of the findings, and critically revised the manuscript. The third and fourth authors participated in critical discussions and provided overall supervision of the research process.

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