“…Negative emotion is an emotional state that individuals often experience in their daily life. Some theories and a large quantity of empirical evidence have suggested that negative emotion is a key trigger for PMPU (Augner & Hacker, 2012; Billieux, 2012; Choi et al., 2015; De‐Sola et al., 2017; Elhai, Dvorak, et al., 2017; Elhai, Levine, Alghraibeh, et al., 2018; Hong et al., 2012; Hussain et al., 2017; Jun, 2019; Matar Boumosleh & Jaalouk, 2017; Smetaniuk, 2014). Lately, there is a growing body of literature recognising that identifying the underlying mechanism is important for exploring the influence of negative emotion on PMPU (Elhai, Levine, et al., 2017; Elhai, Levine, O’Brien, et al., 2018; Elhai, Tiamiyu, et al., 2018; Elhai, Vasquez, et al., 2018; Kim et al., 2015).…”