Emotional intelligence test: seven facets, not one EQ score
42 public-domain statements, about 9 minutes, free and no sign-up. Your result is a meter for each of seven emotional facets, with no EQ score and no label.
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What this assessment measures
This test measures seven separate emotional habits, one meter each, from 42 statements you rate about yourself. The seven are showing warm feelings, showing difficult feelings, noticing your own feelings, letting feelings guide decisions, catching other people's joy, feeling other people's distress, and caring about how others are doing. It cannot give you an EQ score, rank you, or measure how well you actually handle a feeling when it arrives.
What this test looks at
Showing warm feelings · 6 statements
Showing difficult feelings · 6 statements
Noticing your own feelings · 6 statements
Letting feelings guide decisions · 6 statements
Catching other people's joy · 6 statements
Feeling other people's distress · 6 statements
Caring about how others are doing · 6 statements
Time
9 minutes
Items
42
Result
attainable-range pattern summary
Source
Selected public-domain IPIP items from Barchard's emotional-intelligence scales
Material limit
This is self-report: it records how you described yourself in one sitting, on one kind of day, and a rough week can move several meters. There is no comparison group, no cut-off and no total, so a meter says only which habits were more prominent in your own answers, not how you compare with anyone. It cannot see what you actually do when a real feeling shows up, and it is not a diagnosis of anything.
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Why this route is different
One EQ number hides the thing that makes this interesting: the seven facets move independently. Someone can watch their own feelings closely and still almost never show them; someone can catch a room's good mood and still keep decisions on the facts. Seven meters keep those apart instead of averaging them into a single figure. And the two expressivity facets are not better high or low. Showing more sadness is not more emotionally intelligent than showing less; it is a different habit, useful in some rooms and costly in others, which is why no facet here is scored as the good end.
A small next step
Take the facet with your lowest meter and watch it for one week. Each evening write a single line about a moment that facet covers: a feeling you noticed late, a feeling you showed or swallowed, a decision you made on a hunch, a person whose trouble stayed with you. After seven days read the seven lines together and ask whether the meter matched the week, or whether the week was simply arranged so the habit never came up.
Questions people ask
Is this an EQ score?
No. It is a self-report profile of seven separate facets, each shown as its own meter, with no total, no EQ number and no pass mark. Ability-based EQ tests are a different kind of test: they ask you to solve emotion problems that have correct answers, rather than to describe yourself.
Is it free?
Yes, and there is no sign-up, no email and no payment at any point. Your answers and your result stay in this browser tab and are never sent to a server or stored.
Where do the questions come from?
They are 42 items reproduced word for word from the International Personality Item Pool's key page for Barchard's seven emotional-intelligence scales. IPIP items are public domain, so we can publish them unchanged and show you exactly which ones we used.
How long does the emotional intelligence test take?
About nine minutes for 42 statements, each rated from very inaccurate to very accurate. There is no timer, so you can sit with a statement as long as you like.
Is a high score better?
Not on these facets. Showing feelings more openly, or deciding from feeling rather than from facts, is not better or worse than the opposite. Each meter describes a habit that helps in some situations and costs in others, which is why the result is seven meters and no total.