Emotional
Emotional Intelligence test
How well you read, regulate and respond to emotion.
What this test is
Emotional intelligence covers four capacities: recognising your own emotions, managing them, reading other people, and handling relationships. This assessment gives you an overall score plus a breakdown by capacity.
Who it is for
Anyone who wants a structured description of this side of themselves — for their own understanding, for a conversation with someone close to them, or as preparation for a decision. It is an educational self-assessment: it is not a recruitment instrument and it is not a clinical or diagnostic assessment.
How the test works
You answer 24 statements one at a time on a five-point agreement scale, which takes about 9 minutes. Roughly half the items are reverse-keyed, so agreeing with everything does not inflate your scores. Answers are averaged per dimension and reported as a percentage of the maximum for that dimension, then turned into a written profile.
What you'll receive
- An overall EQ score plus four sub-scores
- Where your emotional skills are strongest
- Specific practices for the areas that score lowest
What it measures
Self-awareness
Recognising your own emotional state.
Self-regulation
Managing impulses and reactions.
Empathy
Reading and respecting other people's emotions.
Social skill
Handling relationships and conflict.
Limitations
This is a self-report questionnaire, so it measures how you describe yourself today — which is shaped by mood, recent events and how you would like to be seen. Scores are percentages within this test, not percentile ranks against a population sample. Read the result as a description to think with, not a fact about you. How to interpret your results goes into this in more depth.
Scientific basis
- Salovey, P., & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9(3), 185–211. View publication
- Schutte, N. S., et al. (1998). Development and validation of a measure of emotional intelligence. Personality and Individual Differences, 25(2), 167–177. View publication
- Petrides, K. V., & Furnham, A. (2001). Trait emotional intelligence: Psychometric investigation. European Journal of Personality, 15(6), 425–448. View publication
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Frequently asked questions
How long does the emotional intelligence test take?
About 9 minutes. There are 24 statements, each answered on a five-point agreement scale, one at a time.
Is the emotional intelligence test free?
Taking the test and seeing your scored preview is free. The complete written report is an optional one-off unlock — there is no subscription.
How are my results calculated?
Each answer becomes a number, reverse-keyed items are flipped, and the items belonging to each dimension are averaged and expressed as a percentage of the maximum for that dimension.
Do I need an account?
No account is needed to start. You create a free account when you finish, so your answers and any unlocked report stay available to you.