The purpose of this study is to recognize the relationship between emotional arousal and the skillful self of basketball players in the UAE universities. Therefore, the researchers employ the survey methodology's descriptive approach to the nature of this study. The sample of this study consisted of (44) male and female players from the national teams participating in the Sports Federation Championship for Higher Education Institutions (HESF), which were chosen by random method. Also, the researchers used the two scales of Abdel-Rida (2002) for emotional arousal, which consisted of (31) items, as well as the skillful self- scale which consisted of (42) paragraphs and was previously used. After applying the tool, extracting the results of the study and processing them statistically, the researchers concluded that the UAE university basketball players possess a high emotional arousal at a rate of less than (0.05), with a low skillful self- level amounted to (0.28), which is not significant. In addition to an inverse relationship between skillful self and emotional arousal of basketball players in the UAE universities.