Your emotionality profile quiz
Your positive & negative emotionality profile based on the evidence-based positive and negative affect schedule
About the quiz
Positive affect refers to the propensity to experience positive emotions and interact with others positively, even through the challenges of life.
Negative affect, on the other hand, involves experiencing the world in a more negative way.
The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule is a questionnaire that consists of two sub-scales to measure positive and negative affect, assessing how a respondent generally feels.
It captures affective experiences of the respondent from week-to-week as they engage in everyday life, as they are asked to indicate the extent they have felt a certain way “over the past week”. Each item is a single-word affect, e.g. “Excited”, “Guilty”.
This questionnaire will provide you with insight to your propensity to experience both affects separately.
This might also occur if you tend to feel negative emotions and act more negatively within your relationships or your surroundings.
While these two states are on opposite ends of the spectrum, both states affect our lives and how we live.
What do these results mean?
Positive Affect
Select the right tab for you based on your positive affect rating above.
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Low range
If you scored between 10 and 22, this indicates that you scored on the lower range for positive affectivity. This suggests that you may have a lower propensity to experience positive emotions (e.g. joy, contentment), expressions and may experience less positive interactions with others. With this insight, you can reflect on what induces positivity in your life, and consciously work towards introducing more positive experiences in your daily life. A coach can effectively guide you through any potential limiting factors on experiencing such emotions.
Medium range
If you scored between 23 and 37, this indicates that you scored on the medium range for positive affectivity. This suggests that you may have an average propensity to experience positive emotions (e.g joy, contentment), expressions and less positive interactions with others. With this insight, you can reflect on what induces positivity in your life, and work towards increasing this. At this level, a coach can effectively guide you to identify any potential limiting factors that may hold you back from the highest scoring range in terms of positive affectivity.
High range
If you scored between 38 and 50, this indicates that you scored in the higher range for positive affectivity. This suggests that you may have high propensity to experience positive emotions (e.g joy, contentment), expressions and positive interactions with others. With this insight, you may reflect on what induces positivity in your life and explore the why’s behind this. Discuss and acknowledge this as a strength you possess with your coach, considering how you may serve others with it.
Negative Affect
Select the right tab for you based on your negative affect rating above.
Low range
Medium range
High range
Low range
If you scored between 10 and 22, this indicates that you scored within the lower range for negative affectivity. This suggests that you may have reduced propensity to experience negative emotions (e.g. anger, fear, sadness), expressions and experience the world in a less negative way. With this insight, you can consciously reflect upon the functional ways you deal with negative emotions. Discuss and acknowledge this as a strength you possess with your coach, considering how you may serve others with it.
Medium range
If you scored between 23 and 37, this indicates that you scored on the medium range for negative affectivity. This suggests that you may have an average propensity to experience negative emotions (e.g. anger, fear, sadness), expressions and experience the world in a slightly negative way. With this insight, you can reflect on what may induce negativity in your life and hold you back from scoring on the lowest range of negative affectivity. Work towards tackling these with a coach, which may include challenging thought or behaviour patterns.
High range
If you scored between 38 and 50, this indicates that you scored in the higher range for negative affectivity. This suggests that you may have high propensity to experience negative emotions (e.g. anger, fear, sadness), expressions and experience the world in a negative way. With this insight, reflect on what induces negativity in your life, consciously reflecting upon how you react. A coach can effectively guide you through gaining awareness of limiting patterns of behaviours and emotions, and generate action steps for breaking out of them, ultimately improving your quality of life.
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