4.3.2 self QUIZ: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence

Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence

Consider your emotional experience and communication in your daily life. Then look at the statements listed under each of the four emotional intelligence dimensions, placing a check mark next to each statement that describes your abilities. Follow the directions below to interpret your score.

Perceiving Emotions
Accurately perceiving and interpreting emotional messages as they are communicated by others’ facial expressions, vocal tones, and gestures; accurately perceiving your own emotions based on your physiological and mental experiences
I can accurately identify emotions experienced by other people.


I can accurately identify my own emotions by interpreting my physical and psychological states.


I can communicate my emotions accurately to others.


I can discriminate between accurate/honest feelings and inaccurate/dishonest feelings in myself and others.
Understanding Emotions
Accurately labeling emotions and learning how they blend together and change over time
I understand the similarities and differences between various emotions.


I understand the causes and consequences of emotions.


I understand the differences between feelings, moods, emotions, and blended emotions.


I understand how the experience of emotion changes as time passes.


Using Emotions to Facilitate Thinking
Recognizing how emotions and moods influence perception and learning to harness emotional states for more effective problem solving, reasoning, decision making, and creative endeavors
I can redirect and reorganize my thoughts based on emotions I am experiencing.


I can use my emotions to help improve my relationship choices.


I can use my mood changes to help appreciate different points of view.


I can use my emotions to facilitate problem solving and creativity.
Managing Emotional Experienceand Communication
Learning how to manage the experienceand communication of emotions to avoid negative or destructive consequences
I am open to experiencing both pleasant and unpleasant emotions.


I monitor and reflect on my emotions.


I can engage in, prolong, or detach from an emotional state, depending on whether I perceive it as constructive or destructive.


I effectively manage my own emotions.





Note: Information in this Self-Quiz is adapted from Mayer and Salovey (1997).