What is your emotional IQ?
Can you read emotions, yours and other people's? 12 real situations to measure your emotional intelligence.
What you'll discover
- ●How well you recognise your own emotions while you're feeling them
- ●How you react when someone attacks you, lets you down or needs your help
- ●Which of the 5 areas of emotional intelligence is your strongest
Possible results
- Growing Emotional SkillsEmotions hit you hard and fast: you're learning to read them.
- Solid Emotional IntelligenceYou feel, understand and choose: almost always in that order.
- Emotional RadarYou catch the nuances before they become words.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise emotions, your own and other people's, to understand them and to use them to guide what you think and do. The concept was defined by psychologists Peter Salovey and John Mayer in 1990 and made famous by Daniel Goleman, who organised it into five areas: self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. This 12-question test puts you in concrete situations, from the colleague who blames you for his mistake to the friend who says «all good» without meaning it, to estimate how you function in each of those areas. It is not a diagnosis: it is a snapshot of how you currently handle emotions, and a starting point for training that skill.
A self-reflection and entertainment tool, not a diagnosis.
Frequently asked questions
What is emotional IQ?+
«Emotional IQ» is the popular name for emotional intelligence: the ability to recognise, understand and manage emotions, your own and other people's. The term was defined by Salovey and Mayer in 1990 and made famous by Daniel Goleman's 1995 book.
What are the 5 components of emotional intelligence?+
In Goleman's model they are self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills. The first three concern your relationship with your own emotions, the last two your relationship with other people's.
Can emotional intelligence be improved?+
Yes, and more easily than cognitive IQ. Research shows that targeted practice (naming emotions, pausing before reacting, practising active listening) produces measurable improvements within a few months, at any age.
Does this test really measure emotional IQ?+
It is a self-reflection questionnaire based on everyday situations, not a clinical instrument like the MSCEIT or the EQ-i. It gives you an honest snapshot of how you tend to handle emotions, not a diagnosis or an official score.
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