It's assumed that university students' negative expectations for the future, combined with their prevalent resort to cognitive distortions, will heighten their anxiety regarding the profession. In this context, this study attempts to uncover the mediating role of cognitive distortions regarding the effects of negative expectations for the future on occupational anxiety. The findings of the mediation analysis demonstrated that cognitive distortions have a mediating role in the relationship between negative future expectations and occupational anxiety. Furthermore, the variables included in the model account for 22% of the total variance in occupational anxiety.