Find out how likely you are to have High Emotional Potential!
HIGH INTELLECTUAL POTENTIAL SCREENING QUESTIONNAIRE
Take the time to answer freely and honestly. There is no “right” answer: the precision of your examples, your personal history and the way the different elements fit together are what make your questionnaire genuinely useful.
How should you answer? Copy the questions into a document or e-mail and answer beneath each one. To keep the analysis fluid and precise, simply try to remain relatively concise, around four Word pages at most, without worrying if you go slightly over when certain details seem important.
Your responses are personally analyzed by Luc MARTRENCHAR, a clinical psychologist specializing in High Intellectual Potential.
Your age and sense of being different
0) How old are you?
1) Do you feel different from other people / out of step with other people? 2) In what way? 3) Has this always been the case?
Sensitivity, empathy, perfectionism and curiosity
4) Would you describe yourself as a very sensitive person (emotional sensitivity and/or sensitivity of certain senses), or even extremely sensitive (easily overwhelmed by your emotions)? 5) Do certain situations make you experience strong emotions? 6) In particular, are you sensitive to injustice?
7) Are you empathetic? 8) In what way / in which situations / with which people (people close to you, strangers)?
9) Would you describe yourself as a perfectionist?
10) Would you describe yourself as a curious person? 11) Do you get bored easily? 12) Do you quickly lose interest in certain activities?
The way you think
13) Do you feel that you think a great deal? 14) Do your thoughts tend to go in many different directions? 15) Do you feel that one thought can generate several other thoughts, which in turn can generate several more thoughts? 16) Do you feel that you can think about several things at the same time? 17) Is it difficult or impossible for you to stop thinking, as though there were no “off switch”?
18) Are you an independent thinker? 19) Do you find it difficult to accept authority (from a manager, for example)?
20) Do you often think about the meaning of life? 21) About death?
22) Are you a creative person (not only artistic creativity, but also the ability to have original ideas, to find different solutions to a problem from those found by other people, etc.)?
Your school, university and professional background
23) How did your school years go? 24) Were there areas in which things came particularly easily to you? 25) If so, which ones? 26) Did you pursue further or higher education? 27) If so, what did you study and how did those studies go?
28) Are you currently working? 29) How has your professional life gone up to this point?
Languages and family background
30) Do you speak languages other than English? Is English your native language?
31) To your knowledge, do any members of your family have High Intellectual Potential (HIP)?
Finished?
Simply read through your responses once more to make sure they accurately reflect your experience. Do not try to give the answers that seem most compatible with HIP: it is your overall profile, with its nuances and sometimes its contradictions, that is useful to analyze.
Your responses are personally analyzed by Luc MARTRENCHAR, a clinical psychologist specializing in High Intellectual Potential.
Important: the screening estimates the likelihood of High Intellectual Potential. Confirming HIP requires an assessment that includes an age-appropriate standardized intelligence test.
