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Emotional Intelligence Test (EmIn)

Designed for people who want a clearer picture of how they respond to feelings, this 45-question Emotional Intelligence Test (EmIn) takes about 20 minutes. Your result highlights how you recognize and regulate your own emotions, read and influence others’ feelings, and control emotional expression, offering a practical starting point for self-reflection.

Questions: 4520 minutes

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How the Scales are Structured

Understanding Others' EmotionsUOE

Measures how well a person recognizes and infers others’ emotional states from observable cues and intuitive understanding.

example score22/36

22/36Moderate sensitivityexample score

0 – 12Lower sensitivity

13 – 24Moderate sensitivity

25 – 36Higher sensitivity

A score of 22 falls in the Moderate sensitivity range, suggesting a generally adequate ability to read others’ emotions from cues, with room for greater accuracy or consistency.

Managing Others' EmotionsMOE

Measures perceived ability to influence and regulate other people's emotions, including dampening unwanted emotional states.

example score20/27

20/27Highexample score

0 – 9Low

10 – 18Moderate

19 – 27High

A score of 20 falls in the High range, suggesting you often feel capable of shaping others’ emotions and reducing emotional intensity when needed.

Understanding One's Own EmotionsUOOE

Measures how well you recognize, label, and understand the causes of your own emotions.

example score18/30

18/30Developing awarenessexample score

0 – 10Limited awareness

11 – 20Developing awareness

21 – 30Strong awareness

A score of 18 suggests a developing ability to notice and describe your emotions and understand what triggers them, with room for greater clarity and consistency.

Intrapersonal Emotion RegulationIER

This scale reflects how well you can regulate your own emotions by sustaining desired feelings and keeping unwanted emotions in check.

example score10/21

10/21Moderateexample score

0 – 7Low

8 – 14Moderate

15 – 21High

A score of 10 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a generally workable ability to manage your emotions, with room to strengthen consistency under stress.

Expression ControlEC

Measures how well a person can regulate and control the outward expression of their emotions.

example score9/21

9/21Moderate controlexample score

0 – 7Low control

8 – 14Moderate control

15 – 21High control

A score of 9 indicates moderate ability to manage how emotions are shown outwardly, with some consistency but room for greater control in challenging situations.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Self-growth seekers

41%OF USERS

People who want to better understand their emotions, reactions, and communication patterns to improve everyday relationships and wellbeing.

Managers and team leads

34%OF USERS

Leaders who want to gauge how well they read others' emotions and manage their own under stress to lead more effectively.

Psychology and education learners

25%OF USERS

Students and trainees who take the questionnaire to practice assessment skills and reflect on their interpersonal strengths and gaps.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

Benchmarking

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.

Shaded area — where most people score

Dot — the average

You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test

MP (Understanding Others' Emotions)MOE

You?

Average20.5

Typical rangeTypical14.7 – 26.2

Possible0 – 36

EM (Managing Other People's Emotions)EOPE

You?

Average7.3

Typical rangeTypical3.2 – 11.4

Possible0 – 27

EI (Understanding Your Emotions)EYE

You?

Average21.9

Typical rangeTypical17.9 – 25.8

Possible0 – 30

EI (Managing Your Emotions)EYE

You?

Average13.4

Typical rangeTypical10.6 – 16.2

Possible0 – 21

GE (Gene Expression Control)GEC

You?

Average7.7

Typical rangeTypical4.8 – 10.6

Possible0 – 21

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Strongly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Rather disagree
- Rather agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Strongly agree

These are 3 of the 45 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Emotional Intelligence Test (EmIn) - Description and methodology of the test

emotional intelligence

People who want to understand emotional habits can use this assessment to examine how they notice, interpret, regulate, and express feelings in interactions. The Emotional Intelligence Test (EmIn) offers a structured profile rather than a single label. Its dimensions show relative patterns in emotional abilities and tendencies across the five areas. The emotional intelligence profile helps organize attention around emotional reactions, relationships, and communication patterns.

What This Assessment Explores

Across the profile, this emotional intelligence questionnaire covers five abilities: reading cues, identifying feelings and causes, influencing others’ moods, managing reactions, and controlling expression. Results show relative patterns.

The profile includes:

Understanding Others' Emotions (0-36) measures sensitivity to external cues or intuition: Lower sensitivity 0-12; Moderate sensitivity 13-24; Higher sensitivity 25-36.
Managing Others' Emotions (0-27) measures influencing others’ feelings, including possible manipulation: Low 0-9; Moderate 10-18; High 19-27.
Understanding One's Own Emotions (0-30) measures recognizing and explaining personal feelings: Limited awareness 0-10; Developing awareness 11-20; Strong awareness 21-30.
Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation (0-21) measures managing desired and unwanted feelings: Low 0-7; Moderate 8-14; High 15-21.
Expression Control (0-21) measures control of outward emotion: Low control 0-7; Moderate 8-14; High 15-21.

Methodology and Evidence Base

The questionnaire presents short self-report statements about noticing, naming, influencing, or regulating emotion. In the sampled items, most response sets use a four-point agreement scale from strongly disagree to strongly agree; one sampled item uses disagree and agree without somewhat. This format captures graded endorsement rather than open narrative answers.

The questionnaire displays separate scale totals and result bands, but does not document how individual responses contribute to each total; an item-level scoring rule should not be inferred. Comparing the pattern across dimensions is more informative than treating one number as a complete account of emotional functioning.

The online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the EmIn Questionnaire (Lyusin, 2006), but its displayed scores should not be assumed to reproduce that instrument’s scoring or norms. Lyusin (2009) provides later psychometric data; Lyusin and Ovsyannikova (2015) offer related context on links between emotional intelligence, personality, and mood. The multidimensional structure comes from the 2006 EmIn source.

These emotional intelligence results have no stated population norms or clinical cutoffs; they depend on current context, self-awareness, and honest reporting. Use the profile for reflection, not to predict behavior in every situation.

Author: John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey

Literature:

Lyusin, D. V. (2006). A New Method for Measuring Emotional Intelligence: The EmIn Questionnaire. Psychological Diagnostics, No. 4, pp. 3-22. In Russian.
Lyusin, D. V. (2009). Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire EmIn: New Psychometric Data. In D. V. Lyusin and D. V. Ushakov (Eds.), Social and Emotional Intelligence: From Models to Measurements (pp. 264-278). Moscow: Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In Russian.
Lyusin, D., and Ovsyannikova, V. (2015). Relationships between Emotional Intelligence, Personality Traits and Mood. Psychology: Journal of the Higher School of Economics, 12(4), 154-164. 10.17323/1813-8918-2015-4-154-164. In Russian.

Updated: 2025-06-16