Quiz: How Emotionally Intelligent Are You?

Emotional intelligence is often defined as the ability to perceive, use, understand, manage, analyze, and deal with emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can recognize their feelings and those of others, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, distinguish and appropriately characterize different emotions.

Emotional intelligence includes a range of skills and behaviors that help an individual to properly interact with their personal feelings and those of others.

Some aspects of emotional intelligence include:

1. Distinguishing emotions: the ability to recognize the feelings of oneself and others.
2. Understanding emotions: the ability to understand the meanings and causes of emotions or as known as the "root of feeling."
3. Managing emotions: the ability to control and deal effectively with your personal feelings.
4. Dealing with other people's feelings: the ability to understand, respect and interact appropriately with others' feelings.
5. Orienting emotions: the ability to use emotions positively to achieve goals and understand personal challenges.

Emotional intelligence is important for achieving individual success in personal and professional life, as it can help build healthy and effective relationships with others and achieve psychological balance.

In this self-test you can assess your current performance to see opportunities and areas of development and improvement. You can also share the result with your friends and co-workers.

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