The purpose of research was to determine the relationship between social skills and emotional dependence in 260 students from a faculty at a university in Ambato – Ecuador, which is one of the most representative universities of center of Ecuador and Ambato City. This research had a non-experimental approach, cross-sectional prospective observational and had a correlational descriptive design, with a quantitative approach. There was used Goldstein’s Social Skills Checklist and Lemos & Londoño’s Emotional Dependence Questionnaire, both adapted and validated through a pilot test, where in the case of the first instrument evidence of reliability was found (α = .955) and evidence of validity by internal structure through a six-factor model (49.43 % of variance), while in the case of the second instrument, evidence of reliability was found (α = .948) and evidence of validity by the i...