The aim of the present study is to determine the possible relationship among emotional style (rumination and emotional inhibition) and the perceived health and quality of life of pregnant women. To do so, a sample of 94 Venezuelan women on their fi rst trimester of pregnancy completed questionnaires measuring the studied variables: Rumination, Emotional Inhibition, Global Health and perceived Quality of Life. Results support previous fi ndings regarding the positive association between negative emotional style and the deterioration of the health status, while brings new evidence of the inverse relationship between these individual difference and the quality of life in this particular group, who has been poorly studied in its