The current study aimed to identify the most used emotional regulation strategies and goal-orientations among students of the tenth grade in North Al-Sharqia governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. It also aimed to examine gender differences in these strategies and goal orientations. In addition, the current study investigated the prediction of goal orientation in the use of emotional self-regulation strategies. The study sample was randomly selected from grade ten including 345 students (173 males - 172 females) in governmental schools. The study utalized the descriptive method. And two measures were applied: the emotional regulation strategies scale and goal orientations scale. The study found that the most used strategy among the respondents was the positive refocusing strategy and the least used was the catastrophizing strategy. The most common goal orientation was for mastery-approach and the least common was for mastery-avoidance. There are statistically significant differences between emotional regulation strategies and goal orientations due to gender. And to the possibility of predicting the direction of the goal performance - approach by acceptance strategy, the orientation of mastery - approach by the strategy of positive refocusing, the orientation of performance - approach by suppression strategy and goal orientation performance - avoidance by the social sharing strategy. The current study recommends the Enabling students to reflect on feelings, strategies and goals, which helps them to review effective and inactive strategies.