The relationship between emotional intelligence and personality traits with the thrill- seeking and self- efficacy in students of TAU Tonekabon Branch in the academic year

The goal of this research is to analyze the relationship between emotional intelligence and personality traits with the thrill-seeking and self-efficacy in the Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon Branch. The research is a descriptive correlation study. The statistical community is all male and female students studying MD degree in Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon Branch which are the number of 985 peoples. The stratified random sampling method of this research is based on the Morgan’s table and the number of 278 people was determined. For collecting data and needed information, the library and field methods were used. Data collection tools and information in this study is four questionnaires: Personality traits questionnaire (NEO) (1999), Emotional intelligence questionnaire (1980), Zakerman's thrill-seeking questionnaire (1979), Scherer’s public self-efficacy questionnaire (1982).The results showed that: There is a positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and personality traits with the thrill-seeking and self-efficacy in students of Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon Branch. There is a positive and significant relationship between personality traits with the range of thrill-seeking in students of Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon Branch and between personality traits neurosis variable is more suitable in predicting the thrillseeking of students. There is a positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and range of thrill-seeking in students of Islamic Azad University of Tonekabon Branch and dealing with pressure is most effective in predicting the range of thrill-seeking. There is a positive and significant relationship between personality traits extrovert and being amiability is more effective in predicating the self-efficacy in students of Islamic Azad University Tonekabon Branch and between personality traits, the variable of extroversion and being pleasant are most effective in predicting the student rage of self-efficacy. There is a positive and significant relationship between emotional intelligence and range of thrill-seeking in students of Islamic Azad University Tonekabon Branch and between the emotional intelligence variables, Interpersonal skills is more suitable predictor for range of thrill-seeking of students.