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Propensity for Uncontrolled Excitability Test

With 12 yes-or-no questions, the Propensity for Uncontrolled Excitability Test takes about 3 minutes to complete. It highlights how quickly emotional reactions arise and how difficult they may be to regulate, helping you reflect on impulsive responses, communication patterns, and situations where your temper can affect relationships.

Questions: 123 minutes

Propensity for Uncontrolled Excitability Test: sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

Propensity for Uncontrolled Emotional ExcitabilityPfUEE

Measures how quickly and impulsively emotions rise and become difficult to regulate in response to significant events.

example score3/12

3/12Lowexample score

0 – 4Low

5 – 9Moderate

10 – 12High

A score of 3 falls in the Low range, suggesting emotions are less likely to escalate rapidly into impulsive, hard-to-control reactions.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

People with sudden mood swings

41%OF USERS

They take it to see whether their quick emotional shifts and outbursts are a stable pattern and how intense they tend to be.

High-energy, always-on achievers

34%OF USERS

They use it to check if constant drive, elevated mood, and impatience reflect a hyperactive emotional style that can tip into impulsivity.

Psychologists in brief consults

25%OF USERS

They take or administer it to quickly gauge a client’s emotional reactivity and choose a suitable interaction strategy when time is limited.

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

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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

Tendency towards uncontrollable emotional excitabilityTtuee

You?

Average7.2

Typical rangeTypical5.1 – 9.3

Possible0 – 12

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No

These are 3 of the 12 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Propensity for Uncontrolled Excitability Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who notice quick anger, blunt replies, or actions taken before reflection may use this emotional excitability questionnaire to examine a recurring response pattern. The Propensity for Uncontrolled Excitability Test is designed for self-reflection about how strongly emotions shape speech, behavior, and decisions. Its result offers a focused profile of reactivity and control in situations that feel personally important.

What This Assessment Explores

Rather than measuring mood in general, the questionnaire examines how quickly a salient event can trigger anger, offence, worry, disinhibition, or an urge to act. Items also touch on hurt pride, regretted remarks, aggression, damage to objects, and consequences after a temper outburst. The emotional excitability dimension concerns the link between strong feeling and reduced pause for appraisal or restraint.

The question themes fall into three practical areas:

Rapid emotional expression shows how readily a person reacts before choosing words.
Emotion-driven behaviour indicates whether agitation makes actions harder to control, including aggression or damaged property.
Impulsive choices and consequences show how feelings may affect spending, relationships, and later reflection.

Propensity for Uncontrolled Emotional Excitability (0-12) measures rapid, poorly regulated reactions, especially when personal interests are involved; Low (0-4), Moderate (5-9), and High (10-12) are the result bands.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Methodologically, this emotional reactivity assessment uses 12 binary yes-or-no statements. Respondents judge recognizable situations rather than select among graded frequency or intensity options. The questionnaire has one displayed result on this scale, but its rule for converting responses into points is not documented, so the range should not be reverse-engineered into a point rule.

Boyko's 2002 method describes uncontrolled emotional excitability in communication and behavior, and the questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that method. Boyko's 1996 work gives a broader account of emotional energy in interpersonal exchange. The 12-item questionnaire is an online adaptation of Eysenck's material rather than a standardized EPQ administration, and its displayed result has no established norms.

Interpret the band as an indication of the tendency represented by the answers, especially in emotionally charged or personally significant situations. Self-report can be affected by current stress, memory, self-awareness, and the wish to present oneself favorably. The result is a profile for reflection, not a diagnosis, and is strongest alongside behavior and wider assessment.

Author: Hans J. Eysenck

Literature:

Boyko, V. V. (2002). Express Diagnosis of Uncontrolled Emotional Excitability. In N. P. Fetiskin, V. V. Kozlov, & G. M. Manuilov, Socio-Psychological Diagnosis of Personality Development and Small Groups (pp. 394-395). Moscow: Institute of Psychotherapy.
Boyko, V. V. (1996). The Energy of Emotions in Communication: A Look at Oneself and Others. Moscow: Filin.
Eysenck, H. J., & Eysenck, S. B. G. (1975). Manual of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 10.1037/t05462-000

Updated: 2025-10-02