The MEIS is an ability test, which we believe is the best way to measure Emotional Intelligence. Let's take a look at each of these methods.
Some tests use a self-report method.
Self-report is the most common way to measure things such as personality traits. Personality traits include warmth, empathy, anxiety and so on. It's hard to fall asleep at night. I feel down and blue a lot. In a well-developed personality test, we would have many more questions of this type, and we would ask hundreds of people to take the test.