About the test
Emotional intelligence test
Your profile across seven components of emotional intelligence: noticing your feelings, showing joy and distress, empathy, being moved by others, and how much feelings guide your decisions.
- 68 questions
- About 8 min
Questionnaire / instrument: IPIP (Barchard, 2001)
What does it measure?
Seven self-reported emotional tendencies: positive and negative expressivity, attention to emotions, emotion-based decisions, responsive joy, responsive distress and empathic concern.
Where does it come from?
Kimberly Barchard developed these IPIP scales in work on emotional and social intelligence. IPIP describes them as components potentially related to emotional intelligence.
How is the result calculated?
Keyed responses are averaged within each of the seven scales. The report presents a profile of emotional habits and reactions, with scores rescaled to 0–100.
What can the result tell you?
This is a self-report questionnaire, not an ability test with right and wrong answers or a validated overall EQ score. Higher is not necessarily better on every scale, and the scores are not population percentiles.
Languages and adaptations
English follows the source instrument. Our other language versions include AI-assisted translations that have not been independently validated. Our explanations and result commentary are written for this website.
License and reuse
Public domainIPIP places its items and scales in the public domain. They may be used, copied, adapted and translated for commercial and non-commercial purposes without a fee or separate permission.
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Sources and further reading
Barchard, K. A. (2001). Emotional and social intelligence: Examining its place in the nomological network. Doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia.