Attachment anxiety
Worries about a partner’s care, availability or responsiveness. This is a relationship-specific dimension, not a diagnosis of an anxiety disorder.
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Attachment Style Test
Explore worries about a partner’s availability and your comfort with emotional closeness. Get two dimensional scores and a clearer way to reflect on your relationships.
36 statements
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Two continuous attachment dimensions—not a fixed style label. Results are for reflection, not diagnosis. Research sharing is optional.
What you’ll learn
Understand the scores before you start. They describe your responses, not everything about you or your relationships.
Attachment avoidance
Discomfort with emotional closeness, opening up or relying on a partner. It is not simply another word for introversion or a need for personal space.
You’ll see both averages on a 1–7 range, an explanatory attachment map and selected answers to reflect on. The map does not place you in a fixed category.
A look at your results
An illustration of the format—not a prediction of your scores or a comparison with other people.
Illustration · Not your result
Attachment anxiety3.20 / 7
Attachment avoidance2.60 / 7
Two averages, followed by their explanations and a continuous map. These example numbers are not category boundaries.
Before you begin
Think about your relationships generally
The statements below concern how you feel in emotionally intimate relationships. We are interested in how you generally experience relationships, not just in what is happening in a current relationship. Respond to each statement by clicking a circle to indicate how much you agree or disagree with the statement.
For this version, think about your romantic relationships generally, drawing on your actual experiences. You can take it without a current partner. Your circumstances and a partner’s actual behaviour matter when interpreting the result.
Choose from 1 · Strongly disagree to 7 · Strongly agree. Each dimension needs all 18 answers to be scored.
You can skip any statement without explaining why. There are no right or wrong answers.
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Before you take the test
A few practical questions about suitability, skipped answers and privacy.
Can I take this while single?
Yes, if you have experienced a romantic relationship. Think about your romantic relationships generally, not only a current partner. This version is not suitable if you have no romantic relationship experience.
What happens if I skip a statement?
You can skip any statement. Each dimension needs all 18 of its answers before it is scored. You can review what is missing or view any completed dimension without guessing the skipped response.
Are my answers saved?
Your working answers stay in this browser page. If you explicitly agree to research sharing, a versioned copy of your responses, order, completion and scores is sent to private encrypted research storage. Otherwise no answers are uploaded. Research contributions are not saved account results. You can print a personal copy either way.
Does this give me a fixed attachment style?
No. Your results show two continuous scores. The map illustrates familiar attachment patterns without assigning you a category, diagnosis or permanent identity.
How long does it take?
There are 36 statements. There is no time limit. Reading and reflection time varies, so take it at your own pace. You can go back and edit answers before or after seeing results.
Research, sources and limitations
The original questions, instructions and scoring come from the Experiences in Close Relationships–Revised questionnaire by Fraley, Waller and Brennan (2000). The explanations and interface are adaptations, not independently validated feedback. Its reuse conditions are separate from the other questionnaire’s open licence.
Version 3.2.0 · Neither test establishes childhood events, another person’s attachment or relationship compatibility. Read the evidence and use conditions.
Explore attachment before you start
Read a guide, or go straight to the statements when you feel ready.
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Attachment Style Test
Your experience of relationships
Think about your romantic relationships generally. Choose how much you agree with each statement.
You can go back and change an answer. Skipped statements stay unanswered; we do not guess a response.
Your attachment profile
A picture of how you connect
Two dimensions, with room for the detail and circumstances behind your answers.
The overall picture
You used the same response position for every statement. Some questions point in opposite directions, so the average may be less intuitive. You can review the answers to check they fit; this is not a judgement about how carefully you answered.
This test uses established romantic attachment anxiety and avoidance scales. The interface, selected-answer observations and reflection material are locally written and have not been independently evaluated with participants. Scores are not population norms or diagnoses.
No scores are available yet. Each dimension needs all 18 answers. You can review unanswered statements below or leave this profile unscored.
Scores run from 1 to 7. Higher scores indicate more reported anxiety or avoidance. The descriptions use the response range; they are not population comparisons or validated category cutoffs.
Some answers are missing. Each dimension needs all 18 of its statements; you can revisit them or keep the completed part of your profile.
Where your answers sit
Anxiety increases upwards; avoidance increases to the right.
The four names illustrate familiar attachment patterns at the corners. Your dot shows your two averages. The map does not assign you a category or show a confidence interval.
The detail behind the averages
A few answers worth noticing
Selected statements where you expressed a stronger view. These are observations about individual answers, rather than additional trait scores.
Put the picture in context
A score cannot decide whether a concern is justified, whether a relationship is safe, or what caused a pattern. A partner’s actual behaviour, your experiences and your current circumstances all matter.
Wanting reassurance, privacy or independence does not by itself establish an attachment problem. Your needs and boundaries remain relevant whatever your scores.
How does this relate to the four familiar styles?
The names describe patterns across two dimensions. They help explain the framework; people do not have to fit neatly into a single box.
- Secure
- Less worry about losing a partner’s care, alongside comfort with closeness and support.
- Anxious / preoccupied
- More worry about a partner’s care or availability, alongside a desire for connection.
- Dismissive / avoidant
- More discomfort with closeness or reliance, alongside relatively little reported worry about losing the relationship.
- Fearful / avoidant
- Both more worry about a partner’s care and more discomfort with emotional closeness or reliance.
Fearful avoidance does not establish disorganised attachment. This profile does not diagnose childhood attachment, infer a partner’s style or predict compatibility.
Take one thing forward
You do not need to solve everything at once. Choose the question that feels most useful.
Review or edit your answers
A different perspective
The Relationship Patterns Test explores ten patterns around connection, care, worry and vulnerability. Its scores are not interchangeable with anxiety and avoidance.
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Make sense of your results
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Your research contribution
Research sharing is optional. Your results work without it.
A contribution is a private research record, not a saved account result. Keep the reference above if you share. Research privacy and retention.
How these results were made
The two scores follow the original questionnaire’s scoring key: 18 answers per dimension, averaged after reversing the direction of specified statements. The source questions and seven-point scale are retained.
The editorial descriptions use these response-range rules: averages of 3 or below receive the “less worry” or “more comfort” description; averages of 5 or above receive the “more worry” or “more discomfort” description; averages between those values receive the middle-range description. These are writing rules, not validated psychological boundaries. Crossing one does not establish a meaningful change. Small differences between attempts should not be read as improvement or deterioration.
Existing published research supports the measure. Our interface, answer selection and result copy are new and have not been independently evaluated with participants. No new facet scores, representative norms, style probabilities or individual accuracy percentages are claimed.