Emotional intelligence test
Do your emotions fly you, or do you fly them?
Four distinct skills: noticing what you feel, reading what others feel, using emotion as fuel, and turning the volume down when needed. Based on the Salovey–Mayer model and the structure of the WLEIS scale. It doesn't measure how nice you are: it measures skill.
Emotional skills · 4
Emotional self-awareness
Knowing what you feel and why while you feel it, not three days later.
Reading others
Reading other people's emotional state from gestures, tones and silences.
Using emotions
Putting emotions to work: motivating yourself, prioritising, turning nerves into focus.
Emotion regulation
Turning an emotion's volume down when it isn't helping, without denying it.
Where this comes from
This test draws on published, peer-reviewed instruments. It is not a certified adaptation: the items are rewritten in everyday language.
- [1]Salovey & Mayer (1990). Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9(3), 185–211
The original model: emotional intelligence as a set of skills, not a trait
- [2]Wong & Law (2002). The Leadership Quarterly, 13(3), 243–274
The 4 dimensions (own, others, use, regulation) and the reference scale (WLEIS)
- [3]Joseph & Newman (2010). Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(1), 54–78
Meta-analysis: EI predicts performance beyond personality and IQ