Self-Quiz: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence

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Self-Quiz: Assessing Your Emotional Intelligence
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Consider your emotional experience and communication in your daily life. Then look at the statements listed under each of the four emotional intelligence dimensions. Choose “Yes” for each statement that describes your abilities, and choose “No” for each statement that does not describe your abilities.

Please note that your score for this activity will not be recorded unless your instructor has assigned the activity.

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

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

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

Understanding Emotions

– Accurately labeling emotions and learning how they blend together and change over time

Managing Emotional Experience and Communication

– Learning how to manage the experience and communication of emotions to avoid negative or destructive consequences