Emotional Empathy Questionnaire, EETS Test - the question form
Questions: 33 · 4 minutes
1. I feel upset when I see someone feeling lonely in a crowd.
Yes
No
2. People exaggerate animals' sensitivity and their capacity to feel.
Yes
No
3. It makes me uncomfortable when people openly show their feelings.
Yes
No
4. What irritates me about unhappy people is that they are always feeling sorry for themselves.
Yes
No
5. I also start to feel nervous if someone near me is nervous.
Yes
No
6. I think that crying with happiness is foolish.
Yes
No
7. I take my friends' problems to heart.
Yes
No
8. Love songs sometimes move me deeply.
Yes
No
9. I become very anxious if I have to give people bad news.
Yes
No
10. The people around me strongly influence my mood.
Yes
No
11. Most foreigners I have met have seemed cold and unemotional to me.
Yes
No
12. I prefer jobs that involve working with people.
Yes
No
13. I do not get very upset when my friends act wrongly.
Yes
No
14. I like seeing people receive gifts.
Yes
No
15. Lonely people are often unfriendly.
Yes
No
16. I feel upset when I see someone crying.
Yes
No
17. Listening to certain melodies makes me feel happy.
Yes
No
18. When I read a novel, I become so emotionally involved that it feels as if it were really happening.
Yes
No
19. I always get angry when I see someone being treated badly.
Yes
No
20. It does not concern me much even if some people around me start to cry.
Yes
No
21. If my friends start talking with me about their problems, I try to change the subject.
Yes
No
22. When I am at the movies, I am surprised that many people take films seriously and cry or sigh.
Yes
No
23. Other people's laughter does not make me laugh; people often laugh for no real reason.
Yes
No
24. When I make a decision, other people's feelings about it do not concern me.
Yes
No
25. I feel emotionally unsettled if people around me are distressed.
Yes
No
26. It is hard for me to see people get upset often, even over trivial things.
Yes
No
27. I feel upset when I see animals suffering.
Yes
No
28. It is rather silly to get upset about what happens in books.
Yes
No
29. Seeing older people helpless makes me feel distressed.
Yes
No
30. Other people's tears make me feel irritated rather than sympathetic.
Yes
No
31. I enjoy becoming emotionally involved in the fate of film characters.
Yes
No
32. Sometimes I notice that I can be indifferent to other people's concerns.
Yes
No
33. I feel that young children most often cry for no reason.
Yes
No