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Hall Emotional Intelligence Test

Understand your emotional intelligence in about 30 minutes, across awareness, regulation, motivation, empathy, and reading others. Get clear insights to improve relationships, communication, and stress resilience.

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Questions: 3030 minutes

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June 11, 2025

June 11, 2025
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June 11, 2025
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Verified by Daniel Hall

Psychologist with 25 years of experience

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How the Scales are Structured

example score

5/18

Emotional Awareness (EA)

Measures how well you notice, label, and understand your own emotions.

Lower awareness

Moderate awareness

Higher awareness

-18 – -1: Lower awareness | 0 – 9: Moderate awareness | 10 – 18: Higher awareness

A score of 5 suggests a moderate ability to identify and describe your emotions, with room to expand emotional vocabulary and moment-to-moment awareness.

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2/18

Managing One's Own Emotions (MOOE)

Measures emotional resilience and flexibility, including voluntary control over emotional reactions.

Needs support

Developing

Strong control

-18 – -7: Needs support | -6 – 6: Developing | 7 – 18: Strong control

A score of 2 falls in the Developing range, suggesting generally adequate emotion management with some variability under stress.

example score

9/18

Self-Motivation (SM)

This scale measures how well you use emotions to sustain goal-directed behavior and persist through challenges.

Low

Moderate

High

-18 – -1: Low | 0 – 9: Moderate | 10 – 18: High

A score of 9 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting generally adequate self-motivation with occasional difficulty maintaining drive when emotions run high.

example score

1/18

Empathy (E)

This scale measures how accurately and readily you understand and respond to other people's emotions through verbal and nonverbal cues.

Low empathy

Moderate empathy

High empathy

-18 – -6: Low empathy | -5 – 6: Moderate empathy | 7 – 18: High empathy

A score of 1 falls in the Moderate empathy range, suggesting a generally adequate ability to read others' feelings and offer support, with room to strengthen consistency across situations.

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0/18

Recognition of Others' Emotions (RoOE)

Measures how well a person can notice, interpret, and influence other people's emotional states.

Low

Moderate

High

-18 – -7: Low | -6 – 6: Moderate | 7 – 18: High

A score of 0 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting an average ability to recognize and influence others’ emotions across situations.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Personal growth seekers

41%OF USERS

People who want to understand their feelings better, manage reactions, and build healthier habits and relationships.

Managers and team leads

34%OF USERS

Leaders who want to improve empathy, communication, and conflict handling in day-to-day teamwork.

Students and early-career

25%OF USERS

People preparing for school or work who want to strengthen self-motivation, social awareness, and emotional control under pressure.

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.

Emotional Awareness (EA)

Average

2.3

Normal range

-3.8 — 8.3

min.

-18

max.

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Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

Managing Your Emotions (MYE)

Average

0.7

Normal range

-4.5 — 5.9

min.

-18

max.

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Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

Self-Motivation (S)

Average

-2.2

Normal range

-7.9 — 3.4

min.

-18

max.

This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

Empathy (E)

Average

7.2

Normal range

0.8 — 13.7

min.

-18

max.

This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

Recognizing the emotions of others (Rteoo)

Average

0.1

Normal range

-6.1 — 6.2

min.

-18

max.

This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

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- Mostly agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Mostly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
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- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Mostly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Somewhat agree
- Mostly agree
- Strongly 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

Hall Emotional Intelligence Test - Symptoms and Signs

emotional intelligence

This self-report measure is designed to assess core domains of emotional functioning. The Hall Emotional Intelligence Test is completed as a 30 items questionnaire and is typically administered in about 30 minutes.

Developed with reference to the emotional intelligence framework described by Peter Salovey and John D. Mayer, it provides profile scores across emotional awareness, emotion regulation, self-motivation, empathy, and recognition of others’ emotions. The Hall Emotional Intelligence Test uses a 6-point Likert-type response format and is intended to support clinical screening and interpretation alongside other assessment data.

Author: John D. Mayer, Peter Salovey