Self-reflection tool
Emotional intelligence
Which part of handling emotion are you strongest at?
Emotional intelligence is not one number, and this does not give you an "EQ score". It splits into four strands, because plenty of people are strong in one and weak in another — excellent at reading other people while unable to name what they themselves feel, for instance.
24 questions · 5 min
What this measures
Four strands: noticing your own emotion, regulating it, reading other people's, and handling situations with several people in them. The result is the order those four come in for you — and the lowest one usually matters more than the highest.
Worth saying plainly
This is self-report, so it measures what you think about yourself rather than your actual behaviour. That is a real limitation and not a small one: the person weakest at a skill is often the person least able to see it. If you can, ask someone close to you how they would answer for you — the gap between the two is usually the most valuable part.
A tool for reflection and for having language to describe yourself — not a validated measure.
The other results
Common questions
- Is EQ measurable the way IQ is?
- Not in the same way. There are seriously constructed EQ measures in the research literature, but the concept remains contested and there is no standard number like IQ. This splits into four strands to show you a shape rather than handing you a score.
- Can EQ be improved?
- Yes, and that is the big difference from most personality traits. Noticing and regulating emotion are trainable skills, and progress is usually visible within a few months. Empathy is harder to train but is not fixed either.
- Does a low score on one strand mean I am cold?
- No. A low score on noticing, for example, is common in people who feel a great deal but have never had the practice of naming it — the feeling is there, the vocabulary is not. That is more a language skill than an emotional one.
And you?
Take the test to see your own result.