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The research aimed to find the relationship between Internet Vigilance, emotional creativity, and self-sufficiency. The current research sample consisted of (898) male and female students at Damietta University in the faculties of (Specific Education - Education - Physical Education - Applied Arts - Commerce - Science - Engineering - Literature – Computers and information) in the first and fourth academic year, with an average age of 20.09 and a standard deviation of 2.56 in the first university semester of the academic year 2022/2023. With the aim of revealing their levels in the Internet Vigilance variable, the level of the emotional creativity and self-efficacy variables, and the extent of the differences between them due to gender, academic stage, and specialization, and the nature of the relationship between each of the electronic alertness variable, the emotional creativity variable, and self-efficacy among male and female university students. Damietta, in the colleges of (Specific Education - Education - Physical Education - Applied Arts - Commerce - Science - Engineering - Literature - Computers and Information), Regarding the extent to which it is possible to predict each of the variables of emotional creativity and self-efficacy through the dimensions of the Internet Vigilance variable, the researcher here relied on two tools to measure the variable dimensions of Internet Vigilance, the (Reince et al., 2018) scale to measure the trait, and the (Johannes et al., 2020) scale to measure the situation, as the researcher Arabized it, codified it, and verified the extent of its psychometric properties, and two tools to measure the variables of emotional creativity and self-efficacy among male and female students at Damietta University in the faculties of (Specific Education - Education - Physical Education - Applied Arts - Commerce - Sciences - Engineering - Literature - Computers and Information) prepared by the researcher. To identify the results of the research, the following statistical treatments were used: T-test for independent samples, Cronbach's Alpha test, One-Way ANOVA, frequencies, arithmetic means, standard deviations, and correlation analysis. Pearson correlation coefficients, multiple regression analysis, and the bootstrap method to test confidence interval (CI) estimates, using version 23.0 of the statistical program SPSS. The research showed several results, the most important of which are: the existence of a significant correlation between Internet Vigilance and emotional creativity, and that the Internet Vigilance variable predicted emotional creativity, while The results related to self-efficacy showed its mediation in the relationship between each of the variables (Internet Vigilance and emotional creativity).The results also showed that the effect of self-efficacy on Internet Vigilance among university students varies according to the students’ academic stage. The results also showed that there are statistically significant differences in the relationship between self-efficacy and emotional creativity among university students depending on the variable of type (sex), as well as specialization (scientific/ literary). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]