The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test™
Emotional intelligence is “the ability to perceive emotions, to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought, to understand emotions and emotional knowledge, and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth (Mayer & Salovey, 1997).
This is an ability model of emotional intelligence - the ability to reason with, and about, emotions. For Mayer & Salovey being emotionally intelligent combines feelings with thinking, and thinking with feelings.
THE MAYER-SALOVEY-CARUSO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TEST (MSCEIT)
The MSCEIT measures a personâs emotional intelligence in four related abilities or skills:
Ability: Accurately identify emotions in people and objects
How well do you "read" people's moods?
Ability: Generate an emotion and solve problems with that emotion
How well do you create a feeling that will assist in problem solving, communicating a vision, leading people?
Ability: Understand the causes of emotions
How well do you predict how people will emotionally react?
Ability: Manage emotions and blend with thinking
How well do you integrate emotion and thought to make effective decisions?