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Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test

See how creatively you shape and blend your emotions in about 6 minutes. Get a fast, 30-item snapshot of emotional depth, novelty, and expression you can use for growth.
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October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured
example score
20/45
Effectiveness/Authenticity (E)
Measures how sincerely and skillfully you express emotions and how well that expression aligns with your core interests and values.
Less aligned/less effective
Developing authenticity
Authentic & effective
9 – 21: Less aligned/less effective | 22 – 33: Developing authenticity | 34 – 45: Authentic & effective
A score of 20 suggests emotional expression may feel less aligned with core interests or be harder to convey effectively and sincerely in some situations.
example score
21/70
Novelty (N)
Novelty measures how readily you experience unusual, hard-to-describe emotions that go beyond familiar cultural patterns.
Lower novelty
Moderate novelty
Higher novelty
14 – 32: Lower novelty | 33 – 51: Moderate novelty | 52 – 70: Higher novelty
A score of 21 falls in the Lower novelty range, suggesting your emotional experiences tend to stay closer to familiar, easily named feelings rather than highly unconventional ones.
example score
20/35
Preparedness (P)
Readiness measures how prepared a person is to learn from past emotional experiences to better recognize and accommodate new emotions.
Low readiness
Moderate readiness
High readiness
7 – 16: Low readiness | 17 – 25: Moderate readiness | 26 – 35: High readiness
A score of 20 falls in the Moderate readiness range, suggesting a generally adequate ability to use past experience to understand emotions while still having room to deepen emotional awareness.
example score
118/150
Emotional Creativity (EC)
Measures how strongly a person can generate novel, authentic, and effective emotional experiences beyond familiar cultural patterns.
Lower emotional creativity
Moderate emotional creativity
Higher emotional creativity
30 – 90: Lower emotional creativity | 91 – 119: Moderate emotional creativity | 120 – 150: Higher emotional creativity
A score of 118 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting you often combine and shape emotions in flexible ways while still relying at times on familiar emotional patterns.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS
Who Usually Takes This Test?
Artists and creative minds
41%OF USERS
People who make art or create ideas take it to see how richly they can mix emotions and turn feelings into inspiration.
Self-development seekers
34%OF USERS
Those exploring personal growth use it to understand how flexible their emotional life is and how they can reshape it.
Coaches and therapists
25%OF USERS
Helping professionals take it to quickly gauge a person’s emotional resourcefulness and openness to new emotional experiences.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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Effectiveness/authenticity (E)
Average
21.5
Normal range
15.8 — 27.2
min.
9
max.
45
majority
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Once you complete the test, your result will appear here so you can see where you land.
Novelty (N)
Average
50.1
Normal range
42 — 58.3
min.
14
max.
70
majority
This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear here so you can see where you land.
Readiness (R)
Average
15.9
Normal range
11.1 — 20.8
min.
7
max.
35
majority
This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear here so you can see where you land.
Emotional Creativity Scale (ECS)
Average
89.1
Normal range
71 — 107.3
min.
30
max.
150
majority
This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear here so you can see where you land.
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What does this questionnaire measure?
It measures emotional creativity, including the ability to form complex, novel, and vivid emotional experiences. It focuses on flexibility in emotional meaning-making and expression.
How long does it take and how many items are included?
Completion typically takes about 6 minutes. The questionnaire contains 30 items.
How should responses be selected?
Select the option that best reflects typical experience rather than an ideal response. Answer all items using the same timeframe and interpretation of the rating scale.
What do the results represent?
Scores summarize tendencies toward emotional novelty, complexity, and expressiveness. Results describe patterns and are not a diagnosis or a measure of mental health status.
Are there different versions of the measure?
Yes, some adaptations keep a structure similar to the original, while others use a more detailed five-factor model. Version choice depends on the intended depth of interpretation.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES
About This Assessment
Emotional Creativity Questionnaire, ECQ Test

Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test

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Emotional experiences can be conceptualized as flexible constructs that vary in how people generate, combine, and express feelings. The Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) is a brief self-report measure designed to assess individual differences in emotionally creative tendencies.

The instrument consists of 30 items and typically takes about 6 minutes to complete. Items are intended to capture aspects of emotional experience such as originality, complexity, and expressiveness, with an emphasis on how a person may shape and elaborate their emotional responses. It is commonly used in personality and individual-differences contexts to provide a structured snapshot of emotionally creative resources.

The Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) was developed by J. C. Kaufman and R. J. Sternberg and is best interpreted as one component of a broader clinical or assessment battery rather than as a standalone diagnostic tool.

Author: J. C. Kaufman, R. J. Sternberg
Literature: Gross, J. J. Emotion regulation: affective, cognitive, and social consequences. Psychophysiology. 2002.; Mayer, J. D., Salovey, P., & Caruso, D. R. Emotional intelligence: theory, findings, and implications. Psychological Inquiry. 2004.; Barrett, L. F., Gross, J. J., Christensen, T. C., & Benvenuto, M. Knowing what you’re feeling and knowing what to do about it: mapping the relation between emotion differentiation and emotion regulation. Cognition & Emotion. 2001.; Averill, J. R. Individual differences in emotional creativity: structure and correlates. Journal of Personality. 1999.
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