Emotional and social intelligence.
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- ACT - Affective Communication TestLength: 10 to 24
Nonverbal emotional expressiveness / emotional 'charisma' - the disposition to express emotions nonverbally and influence others affectively
Attribution13 items - AEQ - Ambivalence over Emotional Expressiveness QuestionnaireLength: 25 to 60
Conflict about expressing emotion: wanting to express and not doing so, and expressing and then regretting it, across positive and negative emotion.
Attribution28 items - AES / SSEIT (SREIT) - Assessing Emotions Scale / Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence TestLength: 25 to 60
Self-report EI mapped to the Salovey-Mayer (1990) model - perception of emotion, managing own emotions, managing others' emotions, utilizing emotions (commonly a total score)
Attribution33 items - BEES - Balanced Emotional Empathy ScaleLength: 25 to 60
vicarious emotional (affective) empathy - the tendency to feel the emotions of others; a single balanced (positively and negatively keyed) dimension
Restricted30 items - BES - Basic Empathy Scale
Empathy with a dual-component structure: cognitive empathy and affective empathy
Attribution20 (originally for adolescents); BES-A adult version - BEQ - Berkeley Expressivity QuestionnaireLength: 10 to 24
Dispositional emotional expressivity - 3 facets: Negative Expressivity, Positive Expressivity, Impulse Strength
Attribution16 items - BVAQ - Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire
Alexithymia (cognitive + affective dimensions) - 5 subscales: Emotionalizing, Fantasizing, Identifying, Analyzing, Verbalizing
Attribution40 (5 subscales x 8 items; two parallel 20-item forms B-A and B-B) - CAM - Cambridge Mindreading Face-Voice Battery
Recognition of complex (non-basic) emotions and mental states from dynamic facial and vocal expressions.
Attribution50 face items and 50 voice items (20 emotion concepts, ~2-3 items each) - CERQ - Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Cognitive (thought-based) coping strategies after negative events - 9 strategies: Self-blame, Acceptance, Rumination, Positive Refocusing, Refocus on Planning, Positive Reappraisal, Putting into Perspective, Catastrophizing, Other-blame
Attribution36 (9 strategies x 4 items); CERQ-short = 18 - CQS - Cultural Intelligence Scale (Four-Factor)Length: 10 to 24
Cultural intelligence (CQ) - 4 factors: Metacognitive CQ, Cognitive CQ, Motivational CQ, Behavioral CQ
Attribution20 items - DANVA2 - Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2
Nonverbal receptivity / emotion recognition accuracy across channels: adult + child faces, paralanguage/voices, postures, gestures (happy, sad, angry, fearful)
Restricted24 per subtest (e.g. Adult Facial Expressions = 24 photos); multiple subtests combined - DERS - Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale
Difficulties in emotion regulation - 6 subscales: Nonacceptance, Goals (difficulty with goal-directed behaviour), Impulse, Awareness, Strategies, Clarity + total
Attribution36 (full); DERS-16 and DERS-18 and DERS-SF short forms - ERAM / MERT - Emotion Recognition Assessment in Multiple Modalities (Multimodal Emotion Recognition Test)
Emotion recognition ability across modalities - face (still + video), voice, and combined audiovisual; recognition of a set of positive/negative emotions
Restricted~24-72 items depending on version (MERT 30+ clips; ERAM modality blocks) - EROS - Emotion Regulation of Others and Self
affect-improving and affect-worsening strategies used to regulate one's own emotions (intrinsic) and other people's emotions (extrinsic) - a 2x2 (target x direction) framework
Attribution24 (four subscales of 6 items: intrinsic/extrinsic affect-improving and affect-worsening, each 3 cognitive + 3 behavioural) - ERQ - Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
Habitual use of two emotion-regulation strategies: Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression
Attribution10 (6 reappraisal + 4 suppression) - ESCI - Emotional and Social Competency Inventory
Emotional + social competencies for leadership (Goleman-Boyatzis model) - 12 competencies across Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Management
Restricted68 (multi-rater 360) - ECS - Emotional Contagion ScaleLength: 10 to 24
Susceptibility to catching others' emotions - tendency to automatically mimic and synchronize with others' emotional expressions (love/happiness, fear, anger, sadness)
Attribution15 items - EES - Emotional Expressivity ScaleLength: 10 to 24
General emotional expressivity - the dispositional tendency to outwardly display emotions (unidimensional)
Attribution17 items - EQ-i 2.0 - Emotional Quotient Inventory 2.0 (Bar-On)Length: Over 60
Trait/mixed EI: 5 composites - Self-Perception, Self-Expression, Interpersonal, Decision Making, Stress Management - each with 3 subscales (15 subscales) + total EI + Well-Being indicator
Restricted133 items - ESCQ - Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire
trait/self-report emotional intelligence (Mayer-Salovey model) - Perceiving and Understanding emotion, Expressing and Labelling emotion, and Managing and Regulating emotion
Attribution45 (3 subscales) - EQ - Empathy Quotient
Empathy (cognitive + affective + social-skill) as a single broad construct; sometimes factored into cognitive empathy, emotional reactivity, social skills
Attribution60 (40 empathy items + 20 filler); EQ-Short = 22 - E-CQS - Expanded Cultural Intelligence ScaleLength: 25 to 60
Cultural intelligence at the sub-dimension level - 11 sub-dimensions across the 4 CQ factors (e.g. planning/awareness/checking; culture-general/context-specific knowledge; efficacy/intrinsic/extrinsic motivation; verbal/nonverbal/speech-acts)
Attribution37 items - FACS - Facial Action Coding System
Anatomically based description of visible facial movement, coded as action units and their intensity and timing, independent of any emotion interpretation.
Restricted~44 action units plus head, eye and miscellaneous action descriptors - FPT - Faux Pas Recognition Test
Advanced theory of mind - detecting and explaining social faux pas (requires representing both the speaker's unawareness, cognitive ToM, and the listener's hurt, affective ToM)
Attribution20 stories (10 contain a faux pas, 10 control), each followed by comprehension/ToM questions - GERT - Geneva Emotion Recognition Test
Emotion recognition ability (multimodal: face + voice + body); recognition of 14 positive/negative emotions
Restricted83 video clips (full); GERT-S short = 42 items - GECo - Geneva Emotional Competence Test
Ability EI for the workplace - emotion recognition (video clips), emotion understanding, emotion regulation in oneself, emotion management in others (situational judgment of work scenarios)
Restricted~110 (across the subtests); ~50 minutes online - Genos EI - Genos Emotional Intelligence Inventory
Workplace EI as the frequency of emotionally intelligent workplace behaviours - 7 factors (emotional self-awareness, awareness of others, expression, reasoning, self-management, management of others, self-control)
Restricted70 (full); concise = 31; short = 14 - GEM - Griffith Empathy MeasureLength: 10 to 24
Parent-rated child empathy, separating cognitive and affective empathy.
Attribution23 items - Hinting Task
Theory of mind: inferring a speaker's real intention from an indirect utterance in a short vignette.
Attribution~10 short stories (the original used 10; abbreviated 6-story versions are in circulation - version in use should be recorded) - HES - Hogan Empathy Scale
Empathy conceived purely cognitively (social insight / role-taking); a single empathy disposition score
Attribution64 (true/false) - ICQ - Interpersonal Competence Questionnaire
interpersonal competence across five domains - Initiating relationships, Self-disclosure, Asserting displeasure/negative assertion, Providing emotional support, and Conflict management
Attribution40 (8 per domain) - IERQ - Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Questionnaire
using other people to regulate one's own emotions - Enhancing Positive Affect, Perspective Taking, Soothing, and Social Modeling
Attribution20 (4 factors x 5 items) - IRI - Interpersonal Reactivity Index
Multidimensional empathy - 4 subscales: Perspective Taking (PT), Fantasy (FS), Empathic Concern (EC), Personal Distress (PD)
Attribution28 (4 subscales x 7 items) - JACBART - Japanese and Caucasian Brief Affect Recognition TestLength: 25 to 60
Accuracy in recognising the seven basic emotions from briefly presented facial expressions posed by encoders of two ethnicities.
Restricted56 items - JSE - Jefferson Scale of EmpathyLength: 10 to 24
Empathy in patient-care/health-professional contexts - factors: Perspective Taking, Compassionate Care, Standing in the Patient's Shoes
Restricted20 items - LEAS - Levels of Emotional Awareness Scale
Emotional awareness as a cognitive-developmental ability - structural complexity of emotion descriptions about self and others
Restricted20 evocative scenarios (each scored for self + other + total) - MESSY - Matson Evaluation of Social Skills with Youngsters
Social skills and social-skill deficits in children/adolescents - factors typically including Appropriate Social Skills and Inappropriate Assertiveness/Impulsiveness
Restricted62 (self-report and teacher-report forms) - MSCEIT - Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test
Ability emotional intelligence (four-branch model): Perceiving emotions, Using/Facilitating emotions, Understanding emotions, Managing emotions; two area scores (Experiential, Strategic) + total EIQ
Restricted141 (across 8 tasks, 2 per branch) - MSCEIT 2.0 - Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test 2.0 (next edition)
Same four-branch ability-EI model as MSCEIT v2.0; updated tasks, refreshed norms, online delivery
Restricted~100-141 (revised task set; vendor materials list a streamlined version) - MASC - Movie for the Assessment of Social Cognition
Theory of mind / mentalizing in a dynamic, ecologically valid format - inferring characters' mental states (thoughts, feelings, intentions) from a short film; yields correct ToM plus excessive/less/no-ToM error types
Restricted45 questions across a ~15-minute film (4 characters) - MDEES - Multidimensional Emotional Empathy Scale
emotional (affective) empathy - Empathic Suffering, Positive Sharing, Responsive Crying, Emotional Attention, Feeling for Others, and Emotional Contagion; plus a general empathy total
Non-commercial30 (6 subscales) - MET - Multifaceted Empathy Test
Cognitive empathy (inferring the mental state in a photographed person) and emotional empathy (self-rated concern for and arousal by that person), measured separately in one task.
Restricted~40 photographs (versions differ; a 24-item short form is in use) - MEIS - Multifactor Emotional Intelligence Scale
Ability EI (four-branch model) - the precursor performance battery to the MSCEIT; perceiving, assimilating, understanding, managing emotions
Restricted~402 items across 12 subscale tasks (long) - ER-40 - Penn Emotion Recognition TestLength: 25 to 60
Facial emotion identification accuracy across happy, sad, angry, fearful and neutral expressions, balanced for intensity, sex and ethnicity of the poser.
Restricted40 items - PAQ - Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire
Alexithymia at the facet x valence level - Difficulty Identifying Feelings, Difficulty Describing Feelings, Externally Oriented Thinking, each across negative and positive emotions
Attribution24 (full); PAQ-S short = 6 - PERCI - Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory
Emotion-regulation ability across negative and positive emotions - 8 subscales (controlling experience, inhibiting behaviour, activating behaviour, tolerating emotions, each x negative/positive) aligned to Gross's process model
Attribution32 (full); PERCI-S short forms exist - PEC - Profile of Emotional Competence
Emotional competence across 5 core competencies (identification, understanding, expression, regulation, use of emotion) x 2 targets (own vs others' emotions) = 10 subscales, plus intrapersonal/interpersonal/global EC
Attribution50 (full); Short PEC (S-PEC) = 20 - PONS - Profile of Nonverbal Sensitivity
Accuracy in decoding nonverbal affective cues across channels: face, body, content-filtered speech, randomised-spliced speech, and their combinations.
Restricted220 two-second segments - PSA - Prosocialness Scale for AdultsLength: 10 to 24
adult prosocial tendencies - helping, sharing, caring for and empathizing with others (a single prosocialness dimension)
Attribution16 items - QCAE - Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective EmpathyLength: 25 to 60
Empathy with 5 subscales: Perspective Taking + Online Simulation (= Cognitive empathy); Emotion Contagion, Proximal Responsivity, Peripheral Responsivity (= Affective empathy)
Attribution31 items - RMET - Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Revised)
Theory of mind / mentalizing - inferring complex mental and emotional states from the eye region of faces
Attribution36 (revised adult version) - RSQ - Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire
Rejection sensitivity - the disposition to anxiously expect, readily perceive, and overreact to interpersonal rejection (expectancy x anxiety/concern across scenarios)
Attribution18 situations (original adult RSQ); A-RSQ = 9 situations; child CRSQ versions - REIS - Rotterdam Emotional Intelligence Scale
self- and other-focused emotional intelligence - Self-Focused Emotion Appraisal, Other-Focused Emotion Appraisal, Self-Focused Emotion Regulation, Other-Focused Emotion Regulation
Attribution28 (7 per subscale) - SREIS - Self-Rated Emotional Intelligence ScaleLength: 10 to 24
Self-rated ability-EI mapped to the four-branch model (perceiving, using/facilitating, understanding, managing emotions) - a self-report parallel to the MSCEIT
Attribution19 items - STEM - Situational Test of Emotion Management
Ability EI - emotion management/regulation (selecting the most effective way to manage anger, sadness, fear, disgust in self/others)
Attribution44 vignettes (full); STEM-B brief = 18 items - STEU-workplace / SEC - Situational Test of Emotional Comprehension / Emotion-understanding SJTs (workplace-adapted)
Ability EI - emotional understanding/comprehension assessed via situational judgment, including workplace-specific adaptations of the STEU paradigm
Attribution~19-42 (depending on adaptation) - STEU - Situational Test of Emotional Understanding
Ability EI - emotional understanding (which emotion is most likely to result from a described situation; appraisal-based reasoning)
Attribution42 (full); STEU-B brief = 19 items - SPSI-R - Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised
Social problem-solving: positive and negative problem orientation, rational problem solving, impulsivity/carelessness style, avoidance style.
Restricted52 (long form); 25 (short form) - SSIS - Social Skills Improvement System Rating Scales
Social skills (Communication, Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy, Engagement, Self-Control), Problem Behaviors, and Academic Competence in children/adolescents
Restricted~75-83 per form (teacher/parent/student forms vary) - SSI - Social Skills Inventory
Basic social/communication skills on two channels (emotional/nonverbal and social/verbal) x three functions (Sending/Expressivity, Receiving/Sensitivity, Controlling/Control) - 6 scales
Restricted90 (original); SSI Brief = 30