Heart: personality and emotions
Free emotional intelligence test
This EQ test measures seven aspects of emotional intelligence with Barchard's IPIP scales: how you attend to your feelings, how you express them and how you respond to other people's. You are compared with a sample of adults.
- Time
- 8 min
- Questions
- 28 / 68
- Result
- 7 scales as percentiles
- No sign-up
- Free
Emotional intelligence test
8 min Time28 / 68 Questions
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What your result looks like
Your scales, as percentiles
What this EQ test measures
- Attention to emotions: how much you notice what you feel.
- Emotion-based decisions: how much feelings weigh when you decide.
- Positive and negative expressivity.
- Happy contagion: how much other people’s good mood lifts yours.
- Responsive distress and empathic concern for others.
These are different things: you can express a lot and pay little attention to why you feel it. That is why you get a profile, not a single number.
How it works
- You read statements about how you experience and show emotions.
- You rate how well each describes you in general.
- You see your seven-scale profile, with an explanation of each.
Why we do not give you an “EQ score”
A single emotional quotient was popularised by self-help books, but research shows that questionnaire-based emotional intelligence is a set of traits that overlap with personality, especially agreeableness and emotional stability.
A profile is more useful: it shows where you are above or below average, and so what you might work on.
You can train it
Several of these skills, such as noticing or expressing what you feel, improve with practice. Read what emotional intelligence is for the models and the research.
Why take the test on Animi
- Open scienceQuestions and norms published by researchers. We cite the source of every test.
- Honest resultsEvery score comes with its margin of error. No online test gives an exact number.
- No sign-upNo email, no account. Your result is worked out in your browser.
- Compared with people like youWe place you against people of your age and, where there is data, your country.
Frequently asked questions
Can emotional intelligence be improved?
Many aspects, such as noticing and expressing your feelings, can be trained with practice.
Does this test give an EQ score?
It gives a percentile for each scale rather than one EQ number, because each aspect is different.
How does it relate to personality?
Closely: questionnaire-based emotional intelligence overlaps with Big Five agreeableness and emotional stability.
How long does it take?
About 8 minutes for the free version.
Sources
- Barchard, K. A. (2001). Emotional and social intelligence: Examining its place in the nomological network. Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia.
- Salovey, P. & Mayer, J. D. (1990). Emotional intelligence. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 9(3), 185–211.
- Joseph, D. L. & Newman, D. A. (2010). Emotional intelligence: An integrative meta-analysis and cascading model. Journal of Applied Psychology, 95(1), 54–78.