Find out how likely you are to have High Emotional Potential!
Parent · child / teenager
HEP Screening Questionnaire for a Child or Teenager
This questionnaire explores your child’s emotional and relational functioning. It looks at sensitivity, empathy, intuition, emotional awareness, thought patterns, motivation and relationships with other people.
How should you answer? Copy the questions into a document or e-mail and answer underneath each one. Try to remain relatively concise, around four Word pages at most, while giving enough detail when something feels important.
Concrete examples are especially useful. A nuanced answer is often more informative than a simple “yes” or “no”.
Your answers are personally analyzed by Luc MARTRENCHAR, a clinical psychologist specializing in High Potential assessment.
Your child’s experience and sensitivity
0) How old is your child / teenager?
1) Do they seem different from other children, or do they feel different from others?
2) In what way?
3) Has this always been the case?
4) Would you describe them as very sensitive, emotionally and/or through certain senses, or even extremely sensitive and easily overwhelmed by emotions?
5) Do certain situations make them experience strong emotions?
6) In particular, are they sensitive to injustice?
Understanding emotions
7) Do they find it relatively easy to understand other people’s emotions?
8) Do they tend to expect positive things to happen to them?
9) Can they tell how other people are feeling by looking at their face?
10) Can they tell how other people are feeling from the tone of their voice?
11) Can they usually understand why their mood changes?
12) Is it important to them to try to do things as well as possible, or better and better?
Thinking and intuition
13) Do they seem to think a great deal?
14) Do their thoughts tend to go in many directions, or do they ask a great many questions?
15) Do they seem to experience one thought generating several other thoughts, which in turn generate several more thoughts?
19) Do they seem to understand things intuitively?
22) When they are in a good mood, is it easy for them to find solutions to problems and come up with new ideas?
Empathy, motivation and relationships
16) Do they seek out activities that make them happy?
17) Do they easily feel other people’s emotions?
18) Is it important to them to contribute to other people’s well-being?
20) Do they understand other people’s non-verbal messages?
21) Are they aware of the non-verbal messages they send to other people?
24) Is it easy for them to motivate themselves to do what they need to do?
25) Is it easy for them to motivate other people to do things?
Your child’s relationship with their own emotions
23) Do they easily recognize their own emotions?
26) Do they enjoy sharing their emotions with other people?
27) Is experiencing emotions something they particularly value or enjoy in life?
28) Do they usually understand quite easily why their emotions change?
Relationships
29) How are their relationships with other people?
Finished?
Read through your answers once more to make sure they describe your child’s functioning as accurately as possible. There is no need to try to make the answers fit a particular profile.
This questionnaire provides a first analysis of whether the HEP hypothesis is coherent with your answers. Scientifically valid identification of HEP requires an emotional and personality assessment that evaluates EQ and the broader emotional profile.
