What Is Emotional Quotient?
Measuring your EQ
A good quiz encompassing and interrogating your situational awareness with self realization aims to offer a more practical and realistic deduction of your EQ. Any good instrument is intended to determine the four vital pillars, namely-perceiving, reasoning, comprehending and managing or controlling emotions, on which EQ resides. Some of the popular methods of testing EQ are listed below and many of these tests can also be taken on the Internet.
1. The Reuven Bar-On determines and evaluates happiness, problem solving, stress tolerance and awareness.
2. The Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale is put on tasks revolving around EQ’s four pillars and their performance is evaluated.
3. The Emotional Competence Inventory takes in the ratings, of those who are the closest to you, on your abilities. Questions are usually based on several emotional competencies.
4. The Seligman Attributional Style Questionnaire determines pessimism and optimism.
Besides relationships, EQ seems to create its fair share of impact in the professional arena as well. Contemporary organizations today largely deploy EQ testing methodologies on their employees and more so with the new recruits to determine their ability to handle management roles. Researchers believe that individuals with healthy emotional intelligence certainly make good and effective managers.
