Two of the most widely used tests of EI include the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), which measures actual abilities to solve emotionally related tasks and reason about emotional information, and the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (Bar-On EQi), which is a self-report measure of perceived emotional intelligence and experiential aspects of emotional functioning. They each measure very different aspects of EI and each account for unique variance in behavioral performance. They are both commercially available tests, so be prepared to pay some money to use them. The Bar-On also has a Youth Version as well. The MSCEIT is based on a model of EI that is widely published in the literature, and there are earlier self-report versions (e.g., Self-Reported Emotional Intelligence Scale-SREIS) that are published in the open literature and would not have costs associated with them. There are, of course, other scales out there, but I think these are some well normed and widely used ones.

Two of the most widely used tests of EI include the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), which measures actual abilities to solve emotionally related tasks and reason about emotional information, and the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (Bar-On EQi), which is a self-report measure of perceived emotional intelligence and experiential aspects of emotional functioning. They each measure very different aspects of EI and each account for unique variance in behavioral performance. They are both commercially available tests, so be prepared to pay some money to use them. The Bar-On also has a Youth Version as well. The MSCEIT is based on a model of EI that is widely published in the literature, and there are earlier self-report versions (e.g., Self-Reported Emotional Intelligence Scale-SREIS) that are published in the open literature and would not have costs associated with them. There are, of course, other scales out there, but I think these are some well normed and widely used ones.

Hello Roxana - I'm an author of an emotional intelligence assessment called the SEI, Six Seconds Emotional Intelligence, and it's unusual in that it's highly action-focused. The SEI-YV is the only "full" youth assessment, others such as the EQ-i are reduced versions, whereas the SEI-YV provides a complete model of emotional intelligence. In both the adult and youth versions, there are emotional intelligence scales as well as outcome scales to provide a performance context.

You can read about the tool on http://www.6seconds.org/tools/sei and apply for a grant to use them in research on http://www.6seconds.org/tools/grants/

worth taking a look at MSCEIT.

Hello, You should also look at the profile of emotional competences (PEC; Mikolajczak et al. Plos One). This PEC is a 50 items scale but we recently have published the shorten form with 20 items (Mikolajczak, Brasseur, Fantini-Hauwel, in personality and individual differences). Feel free to contact me if you would like the scales and the validation papers.

You can also look forward to measurement of EI using Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) (Petrides & Furnham, 2001) , both shorter (30 -itemed) as well as longer version are available. Shorter version (30 itemed) measures EI in terms of four main dimensions of well-being, emotionality, self-control and sociability.