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EQ Test – What is your Emotional Intelligence? – your EQ Score

Take the EQ Test and see what your EQ score is, how emotionally intelligent you are. EQ stands for Emotional Quotient. Do you get a low, high or average score? Characteristics of emotional intelligence include: empathy, self-awareness or self-knowledge, optimism, the ability to suffer and social skills. How/to what extent do you have these personality traits or skills? In this article an EQ test, a free adaptation after Goleman (the psychologist who introduced emotional intelligence).

EQ Test – What is Emotional Intelligence? – EQ Score (Emotion Quotient)

EQ – Emotional Intelligence. In the article EQ – Emotional Intelligence you can find extensive and detailed information about EQ and what emotional intelligence exactly means. Below is a brief description and a description of the most important EQ features.

A high EQ or high emotional intelligence, broadly speaking, means that you can deal well with your own emotions and with the emotions of others. How you respond (emotionally) to certain situations and your empathy.

Five important EQ characteristics – A high EQ – Emotional Intelligence

People with high emotional intelligence have the following EQ characteristics, they:

  • Self-knowledge – are aware of what they feel, can recognize their feelings and use them to make wise decisions.
  • Empathy – being able to empathize with the feelings of others and empathizing with the other person and feeling a lot (also unsaid things that may bother someone are observed or sensed)
  • Optimism – think positively about their own possibilities and are not easily discouraged. They are not paralyzed by depression or worry, are not carried away by anger and continue despite adversity. They use their feelings to achieve their goals.
  • Can suffer – can have the courage to work now on something they want to achieve in the longer term. They are able to delay gratification of their needs
  • Social skills – can deal well with both acquaintances and strangers, both on an individual level and in groups, they are able to handle their feelings in a skillful and balanced manner.

 

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Take the EQ Test – What is your Emotional Intelligence? – Your personal EQ score

EQ Test – EQ score . There are various versions of EQ tests. This EQ test is a free adaptation, based on an idea by Daniel Goleman (psychologist, Harvard University; his publication can be found under sources at the bottom of the article).
If you take the EQ test below, you will get a general indication, an impression of what emotional intelligence is and your personal EQ score, or how emotionally intelligent you are.

  1. You are an employee at a call center and are trying to sell your product by telephone. About 20 times in a row you get ‘not interested’ as a response, which is quite discouraging. What do you do with it?
 

 

  • a. You stop for that day, everything will be better tomorrow

 

  • b. You look at your capabilities and consider what could be hindering you from selling well

 

  • c. You simply try out a new approach in the coming conversations, you go all out and continue undisturbed

 

  • d. You are thinking hard about gradually starting to look for other work.

 

  1. You are at a birthday party with a group of 5-year-old children in a playground.
    A girl starts crying because the other children don’t want to play with her. What do you do with it?

 

 
  • a. You don’t interfere, because children can best arrange this themselves

 

  • b. You talk to her for a moment and see if you can help her think of ways to get the other children to play with her

 

  • c. You tell her very kindly not to cry like that

 

  • d. You try to distract the crying girl by suggesting other things she could enjoy playing with.

 

  1. You are a student who in principle must get an 8 for a certain course component. However, you notice halfway through the trimester that – if you continue like this – it will be a small six at most. What are you doing?

 

 
  • a. You draw up an accurate plan for the rest of the study component and resolve to implement that plan exactly

 

  • b. You make the decision to perform better in the future

 

  • c. You tell yourself that this part isn’t really that important, so instead you focus on the other study parts

 

  • d. You go to the teacher and try to get him to give you a higher grade for the part.

 

  1. Due to turbulence, the plane you are in starts to shake and jerk violently. What do you do with this?

 

 
  • a. You continue with the book you are reading or watching the movie and pay as little attention as possible to the turbulence

 

  • b. You prepare for a possible emergency. You start reading the safety instructions and keep an eye on what the flight attendants are going to do

 

  • c. A mix of a and b, a little bit of both

 

  • d. You have no idea because something like this has never happened to you before.

 

  1. You are a department manager in an institution that wants to promote acceptance and respect for cultural differences and ethnic backgrounds. You hear one of the employees tell a racist joke. What do you do with this?

 

 

 

  • a. You pretend you didn’t hear anything, it’s only a joke after all

 

  • b. You call the joke teller into your office and beat him up

 

  • c. You say on the spot, in front of everyone, that these kinds of jokes are very inappropriate and that the institution absolutely does not tolerate this behavior

 

  • d. You advise the employee in question to take the multicultural cooperation course that the institution offers.

 

  1. You’re trying to calm down a friend who is angry at a truck driver who just cut you off on the highway; a life-threatening situation. What do you do with it?

 

 

 

  • a. You tell her that nothing happened and that she should put it aside

 

  • b. You try to distract her with other things, put on her favorite music

 

  • c. You make it clear that you support her and make the well-known finger gesture in response to the truck driver’s reckless driving

 

  • d. You tell her that something like this happened to you too and how furious you were until you found out that the person in question had to go to the hospital for an emergency.

 

  1. You and your life partner have a heated argument and in the heat of the battle you shout all kinds of accusations at each other that you don’t really mean. What do you do with this?

 

 

 

  • a. You agree on a ‘time out’ of 20 minutes and then continue with the discussion about the original issue

 

  • b. You end the conversation and don’t say anything at all, no matter what your partner says

 

  • c. You say you’re sorry and want your partner to say he or she is sorry too

 

  • d. You keep calm for a while, think carefully and state your position on the original issue as clearly as possible.

 

  1. You are a project leader for a new team and the goal is to come up with a creative solution to some frustrating problems at work. What do you do with it?

 

 
  • a. You make good planning and also build in space for proper handling of all questions, so that everyone’s time can be used optimally

 

  • b. You give the people in the team time to get to know each other better first

 

  • c. You start immediately – since everyone’s experience is still fresh – by having each team member take turns telling you what ideas about solutions he/she has

 

  • d. You start brainstorming with the group and ask everyone outright to say whatever comes to mind, no matter how wild or crazy the idea is.

 

  1. Your 4-year-old daughter is extremely shy, hypersensitive and also anxious about new people and unfamiliar situations. This has been going on for years. What do you do with this?

 

 
  • a. You accept that she suffers from shyness and further try to protect her from situations that she is afraid of

 

  • b. You seek expert help, a child psychologist or child psychiatrist

 

  • c. You bring her into contact with new people and unfamiliar situations as much as possible, so that she learns to overcome her fear

 

  • d. You come up with something in which she is repeatedly presented with small challenges, so that she gradually gains experiences that teach her how to deal with strange people and new situations.

 

  1. For years you have longed to play the musical instrument you played in your childhood again. And now years later – just for fun – you started again. You want to use your time as effectively as possible. What do you do with this?

 

 
  • a. You will practice, every day at a fixed time

 

  • b. You will play pieces of music that each require a little more of your skills

 

  • c. You practice whenever you really feel like it

 

  • d. You select a difficult piece of music that you will master through practice and hard study.

 

Scoring EQ Items – Explanation of the Answer Options – The Best Responses

 

1

a . 0

b . 0

c. 20

d. 0

Option c. Optimism – which is a hallmark of emotional intelligence – leads people to see setbacks as challenges from which they can learn. And also persevere and don’t give up, don’t get down in the dumps or blame yourself, but just try different approaches.

 

2

a . 0

b . 20

c. 0

d. 0

Option b is best. When a child is upset, emotionally intelligent parents (caregivers) use that moment as an opportunity to act as a coach. In this way, they can teach their children to understand why they became sad or angry, to make them aware of what they are feeling and what behavioral alternatives they might want to try.

 

3

a . 20

b . 0

c. 0

d. 0

Option a. An important characteristic of self-motivation is that you are able to make a plan to overcome frustrations and obstacles and then follow through and complete that plan.

 

4

a . 20

b . 20

c. 20

d. 0

All answers except option d, as this option suggests that you are not really aware of your behavior or reaction under stress.

 

5

a . 0

b . 0

c. 20

d. 0

Option c. To tackle (racist) prejudices – even in jokes – the most effective way appears to be to make it very clear in front of everyone that these types of jokes are not appreciated or tolerated in the environment in question.

 

6

a . 0

b . 5

c. 5

d. 20

Option d is best. Research data shows that allowing anger to cool down works best (is most effective) if the person who is angry is distracted from the central theme of his/her anger. Initially by sympathizing with his/her emotions and indicating that he/she understands his/her view of the issue in question, but at the same time indicating a comparable situation, in which there was less anger or anger with a shorter duration.

 

7

a . 20

b . 0

c. 0

d. 0

Option a. To get rid of the physical consequences of anger or anger, approximately 20 minutes (or more) are needed. This is therefore the appropriate time to take a break or time out. Anger releases all kinds of substances into your body that affect your perception, increasing the risk that you will exhibit even more offensive behavior. If you allow a cooling-off period, it increases the chance that a meaningful discussion or discussion about the disagreement could take place.

 

8

a . 0

b . 20

c. 0

d. 0

Option b. Groups appear to achieve the most creative achievements when there is a greater degree of mutual understanding or contact and there are harmonious relationships. This is because a safe feeling is created and people feel freer to contribute their input and provide ideas.

 

9

a . 0

b . 5

c. 0

d. 20

Option d is best. Research has shown that children who are very shy or timid from birth often progress best when their parents (caregivers) stage or organize continuous small achievable challenges – in gradual steps – for them.

 

10

a . 0

b . 20

c. 0

d. 0

Option b. If you do not set yourself too tough assignments or challenges, you have the greatest chance of tuning in to yourself, which is not only enjoyable for you, but also appears to lead to better performance.

 

The EQ scores – Qualification – Meaning of the EQ Test result

 

  • 200 – Highest score
  • 175
  • 150
  • 125
  • 100 – Average score
  • 75
  • 50
  • 25
  • 0 – Very (too) low score

 

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