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Yes — there is an actual questionnaire used in research to assess your emotional style across the six dimensions from The Emotional Life of Your Brain. It’s called the Emotional Style Questionnaire (ESQ) and it measures where you fall on each of the six scales: Outlook, Resilience, Social Intuition, Self‑Awareness, Sensitivity to Context, and Attention. (PMC)
๐ Emotional Style Questionnaire (ESQ) – 24 Items
For each statement below, rate how much it applies to you on a 1 to 7 scale:
1 = Strongly Disagree → 7 = Strongly Agree (PMC)
Outlook
When something good happens to me, the positive mood does not last long.
I am very good at seeing the positive side of things.
I find it easy to be hopeful about the future.
When things are bad, I have a hard time believing that eventually they will work out.
Resilience
I find it hard to regain my calm after experiencing something negative.
When I experience a setback, I do not stay upset for very long.
When I’m in a bad mood, it tends to last a long time.
I recover quickly when things don’t go the way I want them to.
Social Intuition
When I am talking with people, I am always attuned to their emotional state.
I am sensitive to other people’s emotions.
I am not particularly good at reading people’s emotions.
I can feel when something is bothering a person by just looking at them.
Self‑Awareness
There can be long periods of time when I am not conscious of my own bodily and emotional states.
I am typically very aware of my feelings, both in my mind and my body.
I am not good at identifying my own feelings.
Usually, I am not attentive to what is going on in my body.
Sensitivity to Context
I have sometimes been told that I behaved in a socially inappropriate way.
I have suffered setbacks at work or had falling outs with friends, because the way I acted was apparently not acceptable.
I have sometimes done things others thought of as tactless or embarrassing.
Oftentimes, when other people think something is inappropriate, I disagree.
Attention
I have good concentration skills.
I do not get distracted easily, even in situations where a lot is going on.
I sometimes feel like I have little control over where my attention goes.
If I get distracted by something, it takes me a long time to refocus. (PMC)
๐ How to Score It
For each dimension, add up your 4 item scores and divide by 4 → you get an average for that dimension.
High average → that dimension is a strength for you; lower average → area to develop.
You can also average all 24 items for a general Healthy Emotionality score. (PMC)
๐ง Why It Works
This questionnaire was created by researchers to capture the six core dimensions of emotional style scientifically and has been validated as a reliable measure of how people vary across these emotional styles. (PMC)
If you want, I can take your answers and interpret your emotional style profile (e.g., “high resilience, moderate attention, lower social intuition”). Just let me know your responses!
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