Understanding Emotions Self-Assessment
Explores how easily you recognise and describe your emotions, and how you tend to focus on thoughts versus feelings.
What this assessment explores
Some people find it genuinely difficult to know what they're feeling – not because they don't have emotions, but because those emotions are hard to identify, name, or describe. This is called alexithymia, and it's more common than most people realise. This assessment explores how easily you're able to recognise and put words to your inner emotional experience – and whether an outward focus might be getting in the way of connecting with what's happening inside. It's built on the TAS-20, a widely used measure of emotional awareness.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 20 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you tend to relate to your own emotions.
The questions touch on things like:
- Difficulty identifying feelings – noticing whether you can tell what you're actually feeling when emotions arise
- Difficulty describing feelings – whether you can find words for your inner experience, or whether it stays vague
- Externally oriented thinking – a tendency to focus on the outside world rather than your internal emotional life
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how connected you are to your own emotional experience – and where there might be room to build more awareness.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
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