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Am I Dealing with a Narcissist Quiz

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For relationship self-reflection, the Am I Dealing with a Narcissist Quiz presents 15 questions and takes about 10 minutes. Its profile describes patterns in accountability, boundaries, autonomy, empathy, and reciprocity, helping you consider how a relationship affects your confidence, independence, and sense of mutuality; it does not establish narcissism or a personality disorder.
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Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

Accountability and ConflictAaC
Measures how often conflicts involve defensiveness, blame shifting, denial, or difficulty making repairs and sharing responsibility.
example score3/15
3/15Limited patternexample score
0 – 5Limited pattern
6 – 10Recurring difficulty
11 – 15Strong distortion
A score of 3 falls in the Limited pattern range, suggesting fewer signs of consistent accountability problems in conflicts, though individual harmful incidents still matter.
Boundaries and AutonomyBaA
This scale reflects how often your limits and independent choices are respected versus met with pressure, entitlement, or control.
example score5/15
5/15Limited boundary pressureexample score
0 – 5Limited boundary pressure
6 – 10Recurring boundary pressure
11 – 15Strong control pattern
A score of 5 falls in the Limited boundary pressure range, suggesting your stated limits are generally more likely to be recognized in these responses, though it does not confirm every interaction is healthy.
Empathy and ReciprocityEaR
This scale reflects how consistently the other person shows empathy and balanced give-and-take in your interactions.
example score7/15
7/15Recurring imbalanceexample score
0 – 5More balanced
6 – 10Recurring imbalance
11 – 15Strong imbalance
A score of 7 falls in the Recurring imbalance range, suggesting your feelings or needs may often receive less space than the other person’s in the situations you endorsed.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Confused Romantic Partners
41%OF USERS
People questioning a partner’s recurring patterns like blame-shifting, guilt trips, control, or lack of empathy and wanting clarity on what they’re experiencing.
Friends and Family Members
34%OF USERS
Those dealing with a relative or close friend who dominates conversations, dismisses boundaries, or never takes responsibility, and looking for language to make sense of it.
Stressed Coworkers or Peers
25%OF USERS
People navigating a colleague, boss, classmate, or roommate who undermines others, seeks constant admiration, or reacts badly to feedback and accountability.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Shaded area — where most people score
Dot — the average
You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test
Accountability and ConflictAaC
You?
Average4.3
Typical rangeTypical2 – 6.6
Possible0 – 15
Boundaries and AutonomyBaA
You?
Average9.9
Typical rangeTypical7.3 – 12.4
Possible0 – 15
Empathy and ReciprocityEaR
You?
Average3.8
Typical rangeTypical1.1 – 6.6
Possible0 – 15
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

    • They check the facts and correct the mistake if needed.
    • They first defend themselves, then acknowledge the evidence.
    • They redirect attention to one of my unrelated mistakes.
    • They attack my character or intimidate me for challenging them.
    • They quickly turn the conversation toward why they deserved similar recognition.
    • They celebrate with me and let the moment remain mine.
    • They congratulate me, although their interest fades fairly quickly.
    • They belittle the achievement or create conflict that spoils the occasion.
    • They sometimes assume access, but stop when I clarify the boundary.
    • They pressure me for passwords or treat privacy as proof of disloyalty.
    • They ask before accessing things that are personal to me.
    • They secretly monitor, seize access, or threaten me to obtain information.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Am I Dealing with a Narcissist Quiz - Description and methodology of the test

People feeling confused or responsible for keeping a relationship calm may use this assessment to organize what they notice. The Am I Dealing with a Narcissist Quiz focuses on repeated interaction patterns rather than labeling a partner from isolated traits. Someone considering the Is My GF a Narcissist Quiz can examine conduct; it describes patterns, not narcissism or a personality disorder.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions cover disagreement, apologies, privacy, attention, independence, vulnerability, social contact, and memory. They ask whether shared reality, repair, boundaries, and give-and-take remain possible. Its value as a relationship-pattern assessment comes from comparing patterns. The result has three dimensions:

  • Accountability and Conflict (0-15) tracks shared responsibility, reality, and repair: Limited pattern (0-5), Recurring difficulty (6-10), or Strong distortion (11-15).
  • Boundaries and Autonomy (0-15) tracks privacy, independent choice, and response to no: Limited boundary pressure (0-5), Recurring boundary pressure (6-10), or Strong control pattern (11-15).
  • Empathy and Reciprocity (0-15) tracks mutual space for feelings and needs: More balanced (0-5), Recurring imbalance (6-10), or Strong imbalance (11-15).

Together, the profile shows where interaction feels cooperative and where blame, monitoring, dismissal, or coercive pressure may erode trust and independence. It supports reflection on a current or past relationship without requiring a particular label.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item describes a situation and offers four response choices, from fact-checking, listening, and respect for limits to blame shifting, guilt, retaliation, surveillance, intimidation, or coercion. Across three scales, the response pattern is reported; point assignment is not documented, and these unvalidated measures are not diagnostic cutoffs. Higher bands indicate recurring patterns and should be read alongside incidents.

For someone considering a narcissism test for a partner, the key distinction is between conduct and diagnosis. The questionnaire is conceptually consistent with Murphy and Hoover's (1999) Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse, covering restriction, withdrawal, denigration, and dominance or intimidation. It is not a validated administration or adaptation of that instrument. Day et al. (2025) reported a weak association between coercive control and pathological narcissism. Oliver et al. (2024) likewise found a weak association between trait narcissism and intimate partner violence, with variation across outcomes and narcissism types.

Self-report can be shaped by memory, distress, limited information, or pressure to minimize events. Threats, stalking, forced contact, confinement, physical harm, or coercive control matter independently of the total and warrant safety action.

Literature:
  • Murphy, Christopher M., and Sharon A. Hoover. "Measuring Emotional Abuse in Dating Relationships as a Multifactorial Construct." Violence and Victims, 14(1), 39-53, 1999. 10.1891/0886-6708.14.1.39
  • Day, Nicholas J. S., David Kealy, Marko Biberdzic, Ava Green, Georgia Denmeade, and Brin F. S. Grenyer. "Coercive Control and Intimate Partner Violence: Relationship With Personality Disorder Severity and Pathological Narcissism." Personality and Mental Health, 19(4), e70038, 2025. 10.1002/pmh.70038
  • Oliver, Eliza, Alexander Coates, Joanne M. Bennett, and Megan L. Willis. "Narcissism and Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 25(3), 1871-1884, 2024. 10.1177/15248380231196115
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