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Self-Assessments

Psychologists and researchers use a variety of questionnaires and measures to assess emotion, and individual differences in emotion-related skills and experiences. Are you someone sensitive to specific emotions? Are you someone who is emotionally expressive? How empathetic are you? These measures may also be useful if you are interested in conducting research of your own, on how these emotions, and individual differences affect a wide range of psychological outcomes.

There are no right or wrong answers, so do answer the questions on the self-assessment as honestly as you can. No data is collected from these self-assessments, and there is no way for anyone at Emotivity to identify you from your responses.

15 items, approximately 5-10 minutes

The Emotional Contagion, EC Scale

How Susceptible are you to Emotions?

How sensitive, or susceptible are you to certain emotions? Does the sight of another person’s emotions makes you feel like you were experiencing those emotions yourself?

Reference:
Doherty, R. W. (1997). The emotional contagion scale: A measure of individual differences. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 21(2), 131-154.
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28 items, approximately 10-15 minutes

The Interpersonal Reactivity Index, IRI

How Empathetic are You?

This widely-used measure of empathy assesses empathy through four dimensions – perspective taking, fantasizing, personal distress and empathic concern.

Reference:
Davis, M. H. (1980). A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy. JSAS Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 10, 85.
Davis, M.H. (1983). Measuring individual differences in empathy: Evidence for a multidimensional approach. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 44, 113-126.
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60 items, approximately 15-20 minutes.

The Emotional Quotient, EQ Scale

How Empathic are You?

This newer measure of empathy returns a score on your empathy quotient (EQ, not to be confused with emotional quotient).

Reference:
Baron-Cohen, S., & Wheelwright, S. (2004). The emphttp://emotivity.my/staging/wp-admin/post.php?post=95&action=edit#athy quotient: an investigation of adults with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism, and normal sex differences. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 34(2), 163-175.
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16 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire, TEQ

How Empathetic are You?

This measure of empathy assesses empathy as primarily an emotional (rather than a cognitive) process.

Reference:
Spreng, R. N., McKinnon, M. C., Mar, R. A., & Levine, B. (2009). The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire: Scale development and initial validation of a factor-analytic solution to multiple empathy measures. Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(1), 62-71.
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21 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The I Can, I am, I Have Scale

How Resilient are You?

Initially to assess resilience among social workers, this 21-item measure can be used to more generally assess personal competence, acceptance of self and life, and social support – key elements of developing resilience.

Reference:
de las Olas Palma-García, M., & Hombrados-Mendieta, I. (2014). The development of resilience in social work students and professionals. Journal of Social Work, 14(4), 380-397.
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19 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Self-Rated Emotional Intelligence Scale

How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?

Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, perceive and use emotions to facilitate thought and behaviours towards effective functioning and/or performance. Self-rated emotional intelligence tests are sometimes used as alternatives to ability-based tests of emotional intelligence.

Reference:
Brackett, M. A., Rivers, S. E., Shiffman, S., Lerner, N., & Salovey, P. (2006). Relating emotional abilities to social functioning: A comparison of self-report and performance measures of emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 91(4), 780-795.
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20 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Short Profile of Emotional Competence, S-PEC

How Emotionally Intelligent and Competent are You?

Here’s another measure of emotional intelligence consisting of 20-item to assess emotional intelligence skills and competencies both in relation to oneself (e.g. identifying and understanding own emotions) and others (e.g. identifying and understanding another’s emotions).

Reference:
Mikolajczak, M., Brasseur, S., & Fantini-Hauwel, C. (2014). Measuring intrapersonal and interpersonal eq: The Short Profile of Emotional Competence (s-pec). Personality and Individual Differences, 65, 42-46.
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30 items, approximately 10-15 minutes

The Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire – Adolescent Short Form, TEIQue-SF

How Emotionally Intelligent are You?

Emotional intelligence has also been examined – and measured, as a trait; an individual difference. This 30-item measure assesses emotional intelligence as a trait, and has been specifically designed for adolescents.

Reference:
Cooper, A., & Petrides, K. V. (2010). A psychometric analysis of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Short Form (TEIQue–SF) using item response theory. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(5), 449-457.
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42 items, approximately 15-20 minutes.

The Situational Test of Emotional Understanding, STEU-B

How Well Can You Match Emotions to their Situations?

This emotional intelligence test assesses how well you understand emotions in relation to the situations that give rise to them. Unlike most of the other self-assessments here, this questionnaire takes on more of a ‘test’ format, and therefore, has clearly marked ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ responses.

Reference:
Allen, V. D., Weissman, A., Hellwig, S., MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2014). Development of the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding–Brief (STEU-B) using item response theory. Personality and Individual Differences, 65, 3-7. MacCann, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2008). New paradigms for assessing emotional intelligence: theory and data. Emotion, 8(4), 540-551. Supplemental material available at: http://supp.apa.org/psycarticles/supplemental/emo_8_4_540/emo_8_4_540_supp.html
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44 items, approximately 15-20 minutes

The Situational Test of Emotional Management, STEM-B

What Would You Do to Manage Emotions in this Situation?

This emotional intelligence test assesses how well you manage/regulate emotions in relation to the situations that give rise to them. Unlike most of the other self-assessments here, this questionnaire takes on more of a ‘test’ format, and therefore, has clearly marked ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ responses.

Reference:
Allen, V., Rahman, N., Weissman, A., MacCann, C., Lewis, C., & Roberts, R. D. (2015). The Situational Test of Emotional Management–Brief (STEM-B): Development and validation using item response theory and latent class analysis. Personality and Individual Differences, 81, 195-200. Supplemental material available: http://supp.apa.org/psycarticles/supplemental/emo_8_4_540/emo_8_4_540_supp.html
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16 items, approximately 10-15 minutes

The Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale, WLEIS

How Emotionally Intelligent are You?

Here is a short 16-item measure of emotional intelligence, developed for use in management research and studies. The items on the Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) is based on the ability model of emotional intelligence.

Reference:
Law, K. S., Wong, C. S., & Song, L. J. (2004). The construct and criterion validity of emotional intelligence and its potential utility for management studies. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(3), 483-496.
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36 items, approximately 15-20 minutes

The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, CERQ

How do You Cognitively Regulate Emotions?

Emotion regulation is the ability to modulate – that is, change and alter one’s emotional experiences. Emotion regulation is differentiated from suppression, i.e. ‘bottling up’ one’s emotions, and is also different from catharsis, where one expresses or vents their emotions. This questionnaire assesses how well you regulate emotions through a range of cognitive processes such as positive reappraisal (rethinking the emotion-causing event more positively), acceptance, rumination and self-blame.

Reference:
Garnefski, N., & Kraaij, V. (2007). The cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 23(3), 141-149.
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34 items, approximately 15-20 minutes.

The Behavioural Anger Response Questionnaire, BARQ

How do you Cope with Anger?

What do you most likely to do when you experience anger? This 34-item measure assesses anger responses for children and adolescents – and may tell you which response you tend to favour when experiencing this strong, unpleasant emotion.

Reference:
Miers, A. C., Rieffe, C., Terwogt, M. M., Cowan, R., & Linden, W. (2007). The relation between anger coping strategies, anger mood and somatic complaints in children and adolescents. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 35(4), 653-664.
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10 items, approximately 5-10 minutes

The Non-Productive Thoughts Questionnaire for Children, NPDK

How Much do You Ruminate?

Non-productive thoughts can elicit unpleasant emotions – the replaying of unpleasant memories and the unpleasant emotions that accompany them is known as rumination, and can lead to lower levels of happiness and psychological well-being. This measure of such non-productive thoughts for children was initially developed by Dutch researchers, and has been translated to bother English and Farsi.

Reference:
Rieffe, C., Meerum Terwogt, M., Petrides, K.V., Cowan, C., Miers, A.C., Tolland, A. (2007). Psychometric properties of the Emotion Awareness Questionnaire for children. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 95-105. Jellesma, F. C., Terwogt, M. M., Reijntjes, A. H., Rieffe, C. J., & Stegge, H. (2005). De vragenlijst Non-Productieve Denkprocessen voor Kinderen (NPDK). Kind en Adolescent, 26(4), 171.
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14 items, approximately 5-10 minutes

The Deffenbacher Driving Anger Scale – Short Scale

Does Driving Make Your Blood Boil?

Traffic, inconsiderate drivers – few things rile us as much as experiences when we’re behind the wheel. This shorter version of the Deffenbacker Driving Anger Scale (14 items compared with the original version consisting of 33 items) measures your anger responses to hostile gestures, illegal driving, police presence, slow driving, discourtesy and traffic obstructions.

Reference:
Deffenbacher, J. L., Oetting, E. R., & Lynch, R. S. (1994). Development of a driving anger scale. Psychological Reports, 74(1), 83-91.
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5 items, approximately 5-10 minutes

The Brief Irritability Test, BITe

How Irritable are You?

Irritability is different from trait anger. It is the proneness and susceptibility towards states of frustration and annoyance despite little provocation. This is sometimes expressed outwardly (Holtzman et al. 2015). This very short 5-item test assesses your irritability. Quite fittingly, this is a sufficiently short measure if you are irritated by long questionnaires!

Reference:
Holtzman, S., O’Connor, B. P., Barata, P. C., & Stewart, D. E. (2015). The Brief Irritability Test (BITe) A Measure of Irritability for Use Among Men and Women. Assessment, 22(1), 101-115.
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12 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Self-Compassion Scale – Short Form, SCS-SF

How Self-Compassionate are You?

Are you kind to yourself, and accepting of your personality? Self-compassion relates to your ability to ‘hold one’s suffering with a sense of warmth, connection and concern (Neff, 2003). This ability consists of self-kindness, self-judgement, the view that others suffer too (common humanity), feelings of isolation from others when one fails, as well as mindfulness towards one’s difficult situation and the extent to which one over-identifies with failure.

Reference:
Are you kind to yourself, and accepting of your personality? Self-compassion relates to your ability to ‘hold one’s suffering with a sense of warmth, connection and concern (Neff, 2003). This ability consists of self-kindness, self-judgement, the view that others suffer too (common humanity), feelings of isolation from others when one fails, as well as mindfulness towards one’s difficult situation and the extent to which one over-identifies with failure.
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21 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

How Much Compassionate Love do You Feel For…?

The Compassion Love for Humanity Scale

Compassionate love is an attitude towards others, which contains feelings, thoughts and actions that are focused on caring, concern, tenderness and a tendency to want to support and understand others – especially when they are suffering or in need (Sprecher & Fehr, 2005: 630). This measure assesses the extent to you have compassionate love towards a specific close other. The ___ blanks can be replaced with ‘family and friends’, ‘other people’ or a name of any individual.

Reference:
Sprecher, S., & Fehr, B. (2005). Compassionate love for close others and humanity. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 22(5), 629-651.
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30 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Professional Quality of Life Scale, ProQOL

How Much is your Professional Helping Affecting Your Well-Being?

Do you engage in a form of helping as part of your profession? If so, you much you enjoy and persist in your line of work may be dependent on how much compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue you experience as part of this job.

Reference:
© B. Hudnall Stamm, 2009-2012. Professional Quality of Life: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue Version 5 (ProQOL). www.proqol.org. Emotivity thanks Dr. Beth Hudnall Stamm for her generosity and kindness in making the ProQOL accessible to both researchers and practitioners. Please visit the official ProQOL webpage at www.proqol.org
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15 items, approximately 5-10 minutes

The Mindful Attempt Awareness Scale, MAAS

How Mindfully Aware and Attentive are You?

Being mindful means being consciously, deliberately attentive towards your present circumstances and environment, and being curious and non-judgmental towards the thoughts and emotions that arise as a result of one’s situation. This 15-item measure of mindfulness, called the Mindful Attempt Awareness Scale (MAAS) is designed to assess how mindful you generally are.

Reference:
Brown, K. W., & Ryan, R. M. (2003). The benefits of being present: mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(4), 822-848.
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17 items, approximately 10-15 minutes

The Emotional Expressivity Scale, EES

How Emotionally Expressive are You?

Individuals vary in the extent to which they display outward expressions of emotion. This 17-item measure of emotional expressivity assesses how emotionally expressive you are of emotions (pleasant, or unpleasant) – be it whether you express them via facial expressions, vocalizations, or gestures.

Reference:
Kring, A. M., Smith, D. A., & Neale, J. M. (1994). Individual differences in dispositional expressiveness: development and validation of the Emotional Expressivity Scale. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66(5), 934-949.
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7 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Curiosity and Exploration Inventory, CEI

How Curious are You?

Are you a naturally curious individual? Do you actively seek out new understandings, and opportunities to grow as a person?

Reference:
Kashdan, T. B., Rose, P., & Fincham, F. D. (2004). Curiosity and exploration: Facilitating positive subjective experiences and personal growth opportunities. Journal of Personality Assessment, 82(3), 291-305.
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6 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Gratitude Questionnaire-Six Item Form, GQ-6

Are You a Grateful Person?

Do you have much in life to be grateful for? Are you someone who can easily think of things you are thankful for? This brief 6-item measure of gratitude assesses your trait (i.e. dispositional) gratitude.

Reference:
K McCullough, M. E., Emmons, R. A., & Tsang, J. A. (2002). The grateful disposition: a conceptual and empirical topography. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82(1), 112-127.
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10 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Revised Life Orientation Test, LOT-R

Are You an Optimist?

Is the glass half empty, or half full? This revised test assesses the degree to which you hold optimistic views of life.

Reference:
Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Bridges, M. W. (1994). Distinguishing optimism from neuroticism (and trait anxiety, self-mastery, and self-esteem): a reevaluation of the Life Orientation Test. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 67(6), 1063-1078.
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10 items, 5-10 minutes.

The Benign and Malicious Envy Scale, BeMaS

How Envious are You?

Envy – the desire to have another’s achievements, possessions, abilities or qualities deemed desirable, is an emotion most of us would have felt at one time or another. Individuals, however, vary in terms of how envious they tend to be. This 10-item measure assesses this dispositional envy.

Reference:
Lange, J., & Crusius, J. (2015). Dispositional envy revisited: Unraveling the motivational dynamics of benign and malicious envy. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(2), 284-294.
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5 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Satisfaction with Life Scale, SWLS

How Generally Satisfied are you with Your Life?

Life satisfaction is an overall, global assessment that one’s life is close to ideal and/or close to one’s desired level. This five-item measure, called the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), is a widely-used measure of one’s life satisfaction.

Reference:
Diener, E. D., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985). The satisfaction with life scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 49(1), 71-75.
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16 items, approximately 10-15 minutes

The Gullt and Shame Proneness Scale, GASP

Are You Prone to Shame and Guilt?

Shame and guilt are two self-conscious emotions, triggered by (usually) negative evaluations and assessments of oneself and of one’s behaviours. In this questionnaire you will read about situations that people are likely to encounter in day-to-day life, followed by common reactions to those situations. As you read each scenario, try to imagine yourself in that situation.

Reference:
Cohen, T. R., Wolf, S. T., Panter, A. T., & Insko, C. A. (2011). Introducing the GASP scale: a new measure of guilt and shame proneness. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100(5), 947-966.
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16 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Disgust Propensity and Sensitivity Scale – Revisited, DPSS

How Easily Disgusted are You?

Disgust is an emotion experienced in relation to objects and acts that one appraises as offensive or repulsive. Some individuals, however, have been shown to be more easily disgusted than others.

Reference:
Van Overveld, W. J. M., de Jong, P. D., Peters, M. L., Cavanagh, K., & Davey, G. C. L. (2006). Disgust propensity and disgust sensitivity: Separate constructs that are differentially related to specific fears. Personality and Individual Differences, 41(7), 1241-1252.
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14 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Authentic-Hubristic Pride Questionnaire

Are You Accomplished, or Arrogant?

How you describe yourself (and how others would describe you) says quite a fair bit about the type of pride you experience most, and are likely to experience.

Reference:
Tracy, J. L., & Robins, R. W. (2007). The psychological structure of pride: a tale of two facets. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(3), 506-525.
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8 items, approximately 5-10 minutes.

The Inspiration Scale, IS

Are You Inspired?

Inspiration is a positive emotion that consists of three components – evocation, motivation and transcendence. It is an emotion we experience when we witness greatness or excellence in others, which then motivates us to pursue goals that transcends our mundane concerns. Here is a short 8-item measure of inspiration, assessing how frequently and intensely you feel this positive emotion.

Reference:
Thrash, T. M., & Elliot, A. J. (2003). Inspiration as a psychological construct. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84(4), 871-889.
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16 items, approximately 10-15 minutes.

The Orientations to Happiness Measure

How Full is Your Life?

What’s the difference between a full life, and an empty one? This measure assesses your life satisfaction and general happiness by taking into account the three ways in which most people derive a happiness: pleasure, engagement, and meaning.

Reference:
Peterson, C., Park, N., & Seligman, M. E. (2005). Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: The full life versus the empty life. Journal of Happiness Studies, 6(1), 25-41.
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