Emotional Intelligence Test
Powerful strengths-based assessment which identifies your candidate's key character strengths.
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Untimed
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128 questions
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Fair and valid science
Trusted by Monzo, EDF, and more
Emotional intelligence predicts how people work with people.
Our Emotional Intelligence questionnaire measures the behavioural propensity to understand and manage emotions and interpersonal communication.
It’s untimed, typically 15 minutes with 128 questions, suitable for all job levels, and can include a custom JobFitScore.
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More accurate insight
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Fast and practical
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Fairer decisions
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Better hiring outcomes
- Leadership and people management
- Customer-facing roles
- Care and support roles
- HR and talent roles
How we know this assessment works
Emotional intelligence is easy to overestimate in interviews. This assessment gives you a fair, scientifically validated measure with accuracy and reliability built in.
Consistent results you can trust
Shows strong reliability across all scales, supporting consistent shortlisting and hiring decisions. Person reliability scores all exceed the accepted .70 threshold, with observed values ranging from .92 to .97.
Proven to measure numerical ability
TPAQ scales were validated against established measures including the IPIP-NEO-120, HEXACO, and other recognised constructs. Correlations are reported as moderate to very large, with all reported correlations significant at the 0.001 level.
Fair and robust by design
Tested for group differences across gender, age, and ethnicity. Reported effect sizes were small to negligible, and none exceeded 0.5, indicating no evidence of practically significant differences in the groups analysed.
Suitable for all roles and levels
Our qualified in-house business psychologists have been developing psychometric tests for over 10 years. They push for innovation and are regular lecturers at Birkbeck, University of London. Our psychologists have developed advanced expertise in the latest psychometric methods including item response theory including the Rash model. Our expertise means we are often used by other psychometric test publishers to help them build or improve their psychometric assessments. By working with Test Partnership you get industry-recognised expertise from qualified business psychologists.
Our psychologists use the latest psychometric test models including item response theory (IRT) to ensure accurate test scores. Our assessments have industry-leading reliability and validity properties, so you can have confidence in the outcomes. The results you get from our assessments have been demonstrated through research to be highly accurate which means you get actionable insights into your candidates' performance. By working with Test Partnership you get confidence in your data.
All our assessments have robust evidence to prove they do not adversely affect protected groups. Our test development process includes trialling our questions on tens of thousands of participants from mixed backgrounds, and our research shows 'Cohens d' effect sizes better than industry best-practice. You can use our assessments safe in the knowledge that they are fair and inclusive.
Sample reports and questions
Review real sample reports and try example questions to see exactly how the assessment works in practice — from the candidate experience through to the hiring insights.
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The Ethos Behavioural Styles Questionnaire (E) Traits
Agency - An individual’s belief in their own abilities, skills, competencies, and their overall sense of control in life.
Cautiousness - An individual’s propensity to avoid impulsive decision-making in favour of thorough and careful consideration.
Resilience - An individual’s propensity towards handling, overcoming, and working through stress and periods of high pressure.
Self-Control - An individual’s likelihood of consciously regulating their behaviour, independent of their emotional state.
Contextualisation - An individual’s understanding of how their emotions typically affect their behaviour and actions.
Decision-Making - An individual’s propensity to account for their emotional state when making important decisions.
Identification - An individual’s likelihood of correctly identifying the emotion(s) that they are feeling at any given moment.
Recognition - An individual’s propensity to recognise when their mood, emotional state, or sense of well-being begins to change.
Compassion - An individual’s propensity towards sympathy, resulting in a strong desire to help others when possible.
Empathy - An individual’s capacity for emotional understanding, allowing them to feel the emotions of other people.
Socially Comfortable - An individual’s propensity to feel comfortable and at ease in social settings, especially when around new people.
Social Tact - An individual’s capacity for careful, deliberate, and effective interpersonal communication.
Negative Expression - An individual's healthy expression of negative emotion, attending to negative feelings and not suppressing them.
Positive Expression - An individual's awareness and recognition of positive emotion, feeling able to express this to others.
Social Confidence - An individual’s propensity to feel confident and assertive during goal directed interpersonal communication.
Teamwork - An individual’s propensity to seek, enjoy, and operate effectively within a team or functional social group.
Relationship Management - A person’s propensity to engage in effective and meaningful social interaction.
Self-Awareness - A person’s propensity to understand, recognise, identify, and properly account for their own emotions.
Self-Management - A person’s behavioural propensity towards proactive control of their emotions, mood, and resulting behaviours.
Social Awareness - A person’s propensity to understand, recognise, and relate to, the emotions of other people.
We regularly create custom personality questionnaires for clients based on their specific frameworks. Our expert business psychologists can help you quickly create a questionnaire that measures exactly what you need.
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Emotional intelligence FAQs
Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognise, understand, manage, and effectively use one's own emotions and the emotions of others to navigate social interactions and make informed decisions.
The four basic skills of emotional intelligence are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management.
- Self-awareness: Recognising and understanding your own emotions and their impact on your behaviour and decisions.
- Self-management: Effectively regulating and controlling your emotions, enabling you to adapt to various situations and maintain composure.
- Social awareness: Perceiving and empathising with the emotions of others, fostering better communication and relationships.
- Relationship management: Using emotional understanding to navigate and enhance interactions with others, resolving conflicts and building strong connections.
Testing emotional intelligence in the hiring process helps identify candidates with strong interpersonal skills, self-awareness, and the ability to work well with others. It can predict a candidate's potential for success in team environments and positions that require empathy, effective communication, and leadership, ultimately leading to better workplace performance and harmony.
A strong EQ, or emotional intelligence, refers to a high level of competence in recognising, understanding, managing, and using one's own emotions and the emotions of others effectively. Our emotional intelligence test will make it very easy to assess which candidates have the highest EQ.
