Am I Insecure Quiz
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Almost always
- Never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Almost always
- Strongly disagree
- Disagree
- Not sure
- Agree
Am I Insecure Quiz - Description and methodology of the test
People who question their worth, overread disapproval, or depend on reassurance may use this questionnaire to organize experiences that otherwise feel scattered. The Am I Insecure Quiz examines self-doubt in relationships, comparison, feedback, and everyday choices. This insecurity test can help a reader identify recurring patterns and select situations for closer reflection without reducing a complex emotional life to one label.
What This Assessment Explores
Here, insecurity appears as a pattern in self-evaluation, social sensitivity, and efforts to secure acceptance. The items address comparing yourself with peers, minimizing achievements, replaying mistakes, fearing rejection, dwelling on criticism, changing to avoid disapproval, and seeking confirmation when someone seems distant.
The scored dimensions below show what each part of the insecurity assessment means:
- Comparison & Self-Criticism (0-20) captures comparison-driven judgment and minimized strengths: Low 0-6; Moderate 7-13; High 14-20.
- Insecurity Intensity (0-40) captures self-doubt, rejection fears, and criticism sensitivity: Low 0-13; Moderate 14-26; High 27-40.
- Reassurance & Approval Seeking (0-20) captures reliance on validation or people-pleasing to steady self-worth: Low 0-6; Moderate 7-13; High 14-20.
Together, these dimensions describe distinct aspects of insecurity rather than a single rank across scales.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
Displayed response options include Never to Almost always, Strongly disagree to Agree, and Never true for me to Almost always true. They address recurring reactions, so answers summarize tendencies rather than isolated events.
The result reports the three catalogue dimensions, each read through its own displayed band. Higher results in the comparison dimension reflect comparison-driven self-judgment; in the intensity dimension, more frequent and impactful insecurity; and in the reassurance dimension, greater reliance on others’ validation. Interpret bands as a profile description rather than a diagnosis.
Comparison and self-criticism content is conceptually consistent with the Levels of Self-Criticism Scale (Thompson & Zuroff, 2004), which distinguishes comparison-based and inward self-criticism. It is also conceptually consistent with CORSI (Radomsky et al., 2021), a reassurance-seeking measure. This questionnaire is not presented as a direct adaptation or validation of either instrument.
Used thoughtfully, the result from this insecurity quiz links thoughts, behavior, and social feedback. Mood, relationship stress, memory, and self-awareness can influence answers, so interpret the profile alongside the situations that led you to take it.
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- Radomsky, Adam S., Rachael L. Neal, Chris L. Parrish, Stefanie L. Lavoie, and Sarah E. Schell. The Covert and Overt Reassurance Seeking Inventory (CORSI): Development, validation and psychometric analyses. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49(1), 3-20 (2021). 10.1017/S1352465820000703
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