Mindfulness
Emotional skills
33 questions · 9 min
This questionnaire asks how you see yourself when it comes to emotions: noticing them in yourself and others, handling your own feelings, supporting other people, and letting emotions help your thinking.
It’s about how you see yourself, not a test with right answers. You get one overall score, and “More detail” shows the four parts on their own.
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What it shows
How confident you feel about noticing, understanding and handling emotions.
What it doesn’t
A test of ability or an emotional intelligence score. It shows how you see yourself.
Who it’s for
This test may interest you if you’re curious how you see yourself with emotions: whether you pick up on how others feel, stay steady when things get tough, or find it easy to comfort people. It can be a good prompt for reflection if you’re working on your relationships, your self-awareness or a job that involves a lot of people.
Because it’s about how you see yourself, it works best when you answer honestly rather than how you’d like to be. You might also ask someone who knows you well whether the picture matches how they see you.
Questions people ask
What does the Assessing Emotions Scale measure?
It looks at how confident you feel about noticing, understanding and handling emotions. Alongside one overall score, it covers four parts: noticing emotions, handling your own emotions, supporting other people’s emotions, and letting feelings help your thinking.
Is this an emotional intelligence test?
It’s often described as a self-report measure of emotional intelligence, and is also known as the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test. But it shows how you see your own skills, not a tested ability or an emotional intelligence score.
How long does it take?
There are 33 statements, and most people finish in about 9 minutes. For each one, you choose how much you agree that it’s like you.
How is it scored?
Each answer is scored from 1 to 5, and three statements worded the other way round are flipped first. Your overall score is the total, from 33 to 165, and each of the four parts has its own total. There are no norms, so results are described in thirds of each range rather than compared with other people.
How often can I retake it?
About every six months. How you see your emotional skills tends to change slowly, so a longer gap gives a more meaningful comparison.
Who developed the Assessing Emotions Scale?
Psychologist Nicola Schutte and colleagues developed it in 1998. The four parts come from later research on the same questions.
Where it comes from
Developed by psychologist Nicola Schutte and colleagues in 1998.
Assessing Emotions Scale
On iPhone or iPad?
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