Abstract This research paper presents the results of a study about the relationship between Perceived Emotional Intelligence and the State-Trait Anxiety psychology students in a public university in Magdalena, Colombia. The investigation was developed from the descriptive-correlational design through the application of the instruments TMMS-24 and INDARE to 167 subjects. The results indicated that there is direct and significant relationship between emotional perception and state anxiety and trait anxiety. By contrast, there was a significant inverse relationship between emotional understanding and state anxiety and trait anxiety, and also between emotional regulation and state anxiety and trait anxiety. Through statistical analysis with Chi2, dependence was also found between the sub-variables with a significance level less than 0.05. Resumen El presente articulo de investigacion presenta los resultados de un estudio acerca de la relacion entre la Inteligencia Emocional Percibida y la Ansiedad Rasgo-Estado en estudiantes de Psicologia de una universidad publica del Magdalena, Colombia. La investigacion se desarrollo a partir del diseno descriptivo-correlacional a traves de la aplicacion de los instrumentos TMMS-24 y el IDARE a 167 sujetos. Los resultados indicaron que existe relacion directa y significativa entre la percepcion emocional y la ansiedad estado y la ansiedad rasgo. Por el contrario, se presento una relacion inversa y significativa entre la comprension emocional y la ansiedad estado y la ansiedad rasgo; igualmente entre la regulacion emocional y la ansiedad estado y la ansiedad rasgo. A traves del analisis con el estadistico Chi2, tambien se encontro dependencia entre las sub-variables estudiadas con un nivel de significancia menor de 0.05.