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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

October 2, 2025
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Scale Explorer

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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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Effectiveness/authenticity (E)

Average

21.5

Normal range

15.8 — 27.2

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Novelty (N)

Average

50.1

Normal range

42 — 58.3

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Readiness (R)

Average

15.9

Normal range

11.1 — 20.8

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Emotional Creativity Scale (ECS)

Average

89.1

Normal range

71 — 107.3

min.

max.

150

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

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

These are 3 of the 30 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Emotional Creativity Questionnaire, ECQ Test

Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) Test - Symptoms and Signs

emotionality

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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