Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test


How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.
Example Questions From the Test
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
- Disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Neither agree nor disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Agree
Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test - Description and methodology of the test
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People seeking a structured view of how they experience and use emotions can take the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test to examine more than mood or intensity. This emotional creativity assessment is intended for self-reflective respondents curious about emotional patterns, originality, sincerity, and usefulness. The profile shows how several related tendencies combine into an individual pattern of emotional experience and expression.
What This Assessment Explores
Emotional creativity involves original, authentic feelings. Items cover simultaneous or unusual emotions, reflection, honest expression, and usefulness. This emotional creativity questionnaire groups six dimensions:
- Emotional Complexity (7-35) reflects multiple, differentiated feelings: Lower complexity 7-16; Moderate complexity 17-26; Higher complexity 27-35.
- Authenticity (4-20) reflects sincere, value-aligned expression: Low 4-9; Moderate 10-14; High 15-20.
- Effectiveness (6-30) reflects constructive use: Low 6-14; Moderate 15-22; High 23-30.
- Novelty/Uniqueness (7-35) reflects unusual emotional responses: Low novelty 7-16; Moderate novelty 17-26; High novelty 27-35.
- Readiness (6-30) reflects openness and emotional reflection: Low readiness 6-14; Moderate readiness 15-22; High readiness 23-30.
- Emotional Creativity (30-150) reflects original, appropriate, authentic combinations: Lower emotional creativity 30-89; Moderate emotional creativity 90-119; Higher emotional creativity 120-150.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Each statement uses a five-point agreement scale, from Disagree to Agree. Answers are combined into component scores and an overall score, but the displayed ranges do not establish how individual responses are weighted or whether any item is reverse-scored. For that reason, this emotional creativity scale should be read through the reported bands rather than a reconstructed formula.
The evidence base is the Emotional Creativity Inventory, the published instrument most directly matching the questionnaire’s themes. Soroa and colleagues’ shortened and Basque versions provide related evidence, but those studies do not establish that this online form is identical to either adaptation. It is conceptually consistent with that work, not presented as a validated reproduction.
Interpret the profile through each scale’s definition: each displayed band describes the level of the tendency named by that scale, rather than establishing a uniform rule about how individual answers contribute. Mood, memory, self-awareness, culture, and willingness to disclose can affect responses. The online form is not independently standardized, so its bands are descriptive rather than diagnostic thresholds.
- Averill, J. R. (1999). Individual Differences in Emotional Creativity: Structure and Correlates. Journal of Personality, 67(2), 331-371. 10.1111/1467-6494.00058
- Soroa, G., Aritzeta, A., Balluerka, N., & Gorostiaga, A. (2016). Adaptation and Validation of the Basque Version of the Emotional Creativity Inventory in Higher Education. The Spanish Journal of Psychology, 19, 1-13. 10.1017/SJP.2016.26
- Soroa, G., Gorostiaga, A., Aritzeta, A., & Balluerka, N. (2015). A Shortened Spanish Version of the Emotional Creativity Inventory (the ECI-S). Creativity Research Journal, 27(2), 232-239. 10.1080/10400419.2015.1030313