Relationship between Emotional Self-Efficacy and Distress Tolerance of University Students

In this research, the relationship between university students’ emotional self-efficacy and age, the number of sibling, parental attitude, socio-economic level and distress tolerance were investigated. Relational model was used in the research. The research sample consists of 390 students, 287 of whom are female and 103 of whom are male. In this research, Personal Information Form, Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale and Distress Tolerance Scale were used as data collection tools. The data were analyzed with T-Test, One Way Anova Analysis, Pearson Momentler Crossing Correlation Technique and Simple Linear Regression techniques. As a result of this research, there was no significant effect of gender, number of siblings, parental attitude and socio-economic status on emotional self-efficacy, and that there was a significant and positive relationship between emotional self-efficacy and the level of distress tolerance. The level of distress tolerance significantly predicted emotional self-efficacy level