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HADJILI, AL-AJIM H.

ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
BS ECE 5

Self-Assessment

What Is Your Emotional Intelligence Score?

Objectives
1. To help you assess your emotional intelligence.
2. To expand your knowledge of the new interpretation of intelligence.

Introduction
Employers have long been guided by one dimension of our personality, our intelligence
quotient (IQ). However, a number of researchers and observers of human behavior have been
examining components of intelligence that include emotions. Your emotional intelligence (EI)
includes your abilities to motivate yourself and persist even when you are frustrated, to
control your impulses and delay gratification, to regulate your mood and keep distress from
overwhelming your thinking ability, to empathize with others, and to hope. The recognition
of the emotional dimension to intelligence is vital today in a world of constant change and
increased stress. Having a sense of your own EI is fundamental to being successful. The
purpose of this exercise is to determine your own EI.

Instructions
Use this scale to indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement
below.
1 = strongly disagree
2 = di agree
3 =neither agree nor disagree
4 =agree
5 = strongly agree
SCORE

TOTAL SCORE

Scoring & Interpretation


This questionnaire taps the five basic dimensions of EI: self-awareness (items 1 and 9), self-
management (2, 4), self-motivation (3, 7), empathy (5, 8), and social skills (6, 10). Compute
your total El score by adding your responses to all 10 statements. Your total score will fall
between 10 and 50. While no definite cutoff scores are available, scores of 40 or higher
indicate a high El. Scores of 20 or less suggest a relatively low EI. Emotional intelligence is a
collection of abilities and competencies that have an effect on a person's capacity to succeed
in dealing with demands and pressures. People with high El have the capacity to correctly
perceive, evaluate, articulate, and manage emotions and feelings. El may be most predictive
of performance in jobs such as sales or management, in which achievement is based as much
on interpersonal skills as on technical ability. People with low EI are likely to have trouble
managing others, making successful sales presentations, and functioning on teams.

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