The relationship between ruuminative thought style and social well being level of the university students with the emotional intelligence

This research has been conducted to investigate the relationship between university students' ruminative thought and social well-being levels with the emotional intelligence. The study group consists of 670 students who were determined by cluster sampling method and studying in the undergraduate programs of the 7 different faculties of Erzincan Binali Yildirim University in the 2017-2018 academic year. 244 of these students (%36.4) were male and 426 of the rest (63.6%) were female. In this research, Ruminative Thought Style Scale (RTSQ), Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Short Form (TEIQue-SF), Social Well Being Scale and personal information form have been applied as research tool. Before the analysis of the data which were obtained from the study, a normality analysis has been performed to determine whether it was suitable for parametric or non-parametric statistics. In the normality analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and Shapiro-Wilk has been applied. In this context, non-parametric tests were used in the analysis of the data since the obtained data were not distributed normally. Depending on the variables in the analysis of research data, Kruskal Wallis Test, Man Whitney U, Spearman Correlation has been carried out by using SPSS package program. As a result of the study, ruminative thought style score showed significant difference according to gender, perceived income level, perceived parental attitude, on the other hand it showed no significant difference according to perceived academic success. It was found that there was no significant difference in terms of gender, perceived income level and perceived academic success in social well- being of university students in comparison with perceived parental attitude. It was found that total emotional intelligence score did not showed difference according to gender, perceived income level, perceived academic achievement and perceived parental attitude. In addition, among the ruminative thought styles and social well-being with emotional intelligence have seen a significant relationship in the negative direction.