Emotional Intelligence Test: How Well Do You Know Your Feelings?

About this instrument

Being smart isn't just about grades. Emotional intelligence , or EQ, is the ability to recognise your own feelings, understand other people's, calm yourself down, and use your emotions wisely. It shapes your friendships, relationships, and how you deal with pressure. The good news: EQ can be trained.

What you'll get:

Your emotional intelligence level out of four stages

Scores on four aspects: knowing your feelings, reading others, managing emotions, and using emotions

Small exercises that suit your level

A result card to save and share

About this test: 20 statements, about 4 minutes. This is a self-reflection test , not a validated psychological test or a diagnosis.

Source: Mindovia Original. Questions, levels, and result texts were written by the Mindovia team. The concept draws on the emotional intelligence theory of Salovey and Mayer (1990) and Mayer and Salovey (1997), the ability to perceive, understand, use and manage emotions, later popularised by Goleman (1995), and on trait emotional intelligence as described by Petrides and Furnham (2001). This test does not use items from the WLEIS, TEIQue, SSEIT, MSCEIT, EQ-i, or any other emotional intelligence scale, and is not affiliated with these researchers.

What it reflects on

• Knowing Your Feelings
• Reading Others
• Managing Emotions
• Using Emotions Well

How to take it

Think about yourself over the past few months . How well does each statement describe you?

There are no right or wrong answers.

Answer based on what usually happens, not what you think should happen.