FOR RESEARCHERS
A rigorously validated Personal Intelligence assessment.
The MIPI Short is a 27-item assessment of emotional, social and motivational intelligence designed for research use. It combines a clear multidimensional structure with modern psychometric development and flexible licensing for academic, applied, and community-based research.
Key Facts
27 items
assessing emotional, social and motivational intelligences
N 3000
adults in the normative dataset
4+3+3
factor structure with a higher-order PI factor
research focused
Suitable for academic, applied and community-based research
ARCHITECTURE
What the MIPI Short measures
A multidimensional model of Personal Intelligence across three interrelated domains.
Emotional Intelligence (E)
9 items covering Emotional Understanding, Introspectiveness, Attentiveness and Emotional Communication.
Together, these dimensions capture how people notice, interpret and work with their internal emotional world, while connecting conceptually with constructs such as alexithymia, psychological mindedness, and attentional control.
Social Intelligence (S)
9 items spanning Social Integration, Performance Readiness and Social Agency.
These dimensions capture how people connect with others, handle being on display and taking up space in social environments.
Motivational Intelligence (M)
9 items from Motivational Self-Efficacy, Motivational Influence and Perseverance.
Motivation is treated as a structural part of Personal Intelligence. The MIPI Short allows researchers to examine how goal-directed activation and persistence intersect with emotional and social functioning.
EVIDENCE BASE
Psychometric details
The MIPI Short is supported by a structured program of development and validation. Full psychometric details are available in the technical manual.
- 4-factor Emotional Intelligence model (EU, IN, AT, EC)
- 3-factor Social Intelligence model (SI, PR, SA)
- 3-factor Motivational Intelligence model (MS, MI, PE)
- Higher-order Personal Intelligence factor combining E, S and M.
- Normative sample of approximately 3000 adults
- Separate norms for age bands and gender groups
- Options for respondents who prefer not to report age or gender
- Good internal consistency across all scales
- Stable test-retest characteristics
- Full alpha, inter-item correlations and SEMs in the technical manual
- Clear separation from Big Five personality dimensions
- Incremental validity over personality and mood
- Predictive links with academic, career and relational outcomes
Participant Experience
When using Adaptimist’s hosted option, participants receive a concise plain-language feedback report after completing the MIPI Short. Results are presented as patterns of emotional, social and motivational intelligence without diagnostic or clinical framing.
What participants see
- A simple overview of their E, S and M scores
- Score bands explained in strengths-based language
- Brief ideas for how their competencies might show up in everyday life
- NO pathologizing language, no labels and no “types”
Many researchers find that this kind of feedback supports participant engagement and is viewed favourably by ethics boards and community partners.
The MIPI Short is currently available in English, Kazakh and Russian. We welcome collaboration on additional carefully supervised translations for research and applied projects.
Open sample MIPI Short Feedback Report
Ready to use the MIPI Short in your research?
We are happy to help you determine whether the MIPI Short is a good fit for your study and how best to integrate it into your research design.
