What is emotional flexibility?
This reflection uses psychological flexibility as its foundation: contacting the present moment and changing or persisting in behavior when doing so serves chosen values. It is not a mental-health diagnosis.
Reflect on how well you notice difficult internal experiences and still choose behavior aligned with your values and situation.
Answer as you are today
Choose the answer that best describes your recent behaviour at work. No email required.
What does emotional flexibility mean?
This reflection uses psychological flexibility as its foundation: contacting the present moment and changing or persisting in behavior when doing so serves chosen values. It is not a mental-health diagnosis.
Why it matters at work
Leaders cannot prevent difficult thoughts and emotions. They can learn to notice them without automatic avoidance or obedience, then choose a response that fits the real situation and what matters.
What this assessment measures
Awareness & naming
Noticing thoughts, emotions, physical signals, and impulses as experiences rather than unquestioned facts.
Openness to discomfort
Making room for difficult internal experience without unnecessary avoidance or impulsive control.
Values-guided action
Choosing behavior according to important qualities and outcomes rather than the loudest immediate feeling.
How to interpret your score
Your overall result is normalised to a 0–100 scale. Use it to choose a practice area, not to compare your worth with somebody else.
Build your emotional flexibility foundation
Your answers point to a few situations where a small, visible routine could make this capability more dependable.
A developing emotional flexibility pattern
You use this capability in some situations. Strengthen the dimension that becomes less reliable when pressure or ambiguity rises.
A strong emotional flexibility pattern
Your answers suggest a reliable pattern. Keep testing it against harder work and evidence from real outcomes.
Designed for reflection, not diagnosis
The ten behaviour-based statements cover 3 practical dimensions. Responses run from “Never” to “Almost always”; negatively worded items are reverse-scored. Overall and dimension results are converted to a 0–100 scale. The assessment is educational and has not been psychometrically validated.
Read the full assessment methodology and editorial standards.
Research that informed this page
Steven C. Hayes, Jason B. Luoma, Frank W. Bond, Akihiko Masuda, and Jason Lillis (2006), “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Model, Processes and Outcomes”, Behaviour Research and Therapy.