Abstract:

The purpose of this study was intended to investigate levels of self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, inter relationships between them and how they affect each other.  This study, conducted according to survey approach, was a descriptive study in which the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological self-efficacy was investigated in terms of students’ views. The participants consisted of 394 college students enrolled in relevant departments at a private and a public university in Kayseri providence. They were in their senior and junior years at the time of data collection process. The Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Scale (SSEIT) initially developed by Schutte et al. (1998) and improved by Austin et al. (2004) and the Psychological Counselling Self-Efficacy Scale developed by Lent et al. (2003) were used to collect research data. In order to elaborate research questions, statistical results such as frequencies, percentages and means were analyzed to reveal relationships between variables (correlation). Also, t-test and f-test were used to determine differences between independent variables. Measures of central tendency including percentage, frequency, and mean scores were utilized to detail the students’ responses on both scales and sub-dimensions. The t-test and was used to explore differences between self-efficacy levels of their emotional intelligence and psychological counselling. In addition, variance analysis (f-test) aimed to analyze multiple comparisons and LSD test to determine the source of differences. The findings revealed that the students expressed their self-efficacy levels of emotional intelligence and psychological counselling were exemplary. Aligned with the expectations, female students showed higher levels of emotional intelligence. The students of the Guidance and Counselling majors scored higher than psychology students in terms of emotional intelligence and its subscales. The factors, whether to choose their major purposefully and satisfaction levels with their majors were obtained as significant variables for both emotional intelligence and psychological counselling self-efficacy. There exists a positive relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy levels of the students’ psychological counselling.  

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