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Parent Attachment Questionnaire for Older Adolescents Test

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In two minutes, the Parent Attachment Questionnaire for Older Adolescents Test presents 10 questions about relationships with parents. Your result highlights avoidant, anxious, and secure attachment tendencies, helping you reflect on emotional closeness, support, autonomy, and consistency in family relationships.
Questions: 102 minutes
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Scale Explorer

How the Scales are Structured

AvoidantA
Measures the degree of emotional distance and reduced closeness in the teen’s relationship with a parent, reflecting avoidant attachment tendencies.
example score7/10
7/10High avoidantexample score
0 – 3Low avoidant
4 – 6Moderate avoidant
7 – 10High avoidant
A score of 7 falls in the High avoidant range, suggesting a notably distant, less emotionally close relationship with the parent compared with a more secure pattern.
AnxiousA
Measures the degree of anxious-ambivalent attachment toward parents, reflecting worry about closeness and inconsistency in the relationship.
example score5/10
5/10Moderateexample score
0 – 3Low
4 – 6Moderate
7 – 10High
A score of 5 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting some anxious concerns about the relationship with parents that may vary by situation.
SecureS
Measures the degree of secure (reliable) attachment to parents, reflected in warmth, support for autonomy, and consistency in the relationship.
example score8/10
8/10Highexample score
0 – 3Low
4 – 7Moderate
8 – 10High
A score of 8 falls in the High range, suggesting the teen generally experiences supportive, autonomy-respecting, and consistent interactions with parents.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

School counselors and psychologists
41%OF USERS
They use it to quickly understand a teen’s attachment patterns with each parent and plan targeted support at school.
Teen therapy clients
33%OF USERS
Older teens take it to make sense of how close or tense they feel with mom and dad and why it affects their mood and behavior.
Family and parenting therapists
26%OF USERS
They administer it to clarify where trust, anxiety, or boundaries are struggling in the parent–teen relationship and guide family work.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
Benchmarking

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
AvoidantA
You?
Average4.6
Typical rangeTypical3.1 – 6.2
Possible0 – 10
AnxiousA
You?
Average6.6
Typical rangeTypical4.9 – 8.2
Possible0 – 10
ReliableR
You?
Average3.3
Typical rangeTypical1.8 – 4.7
Possible0 – 10
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Please select one statement from each set of three that best describes your relationship with your father. Only one statement may be selected from each set. If you have difficulty choosing, respond based on what is true in most situations.
    • My father rarely shows his love for me.
    • I am sure that, no matter what happens, my father will love me.
    • Sometimes I am afraid that my father does not love me.
    • My father values and respects my personal goals and interests.
    • My father is skeptical about my personal goals and interests.
    • My father has very little understanding of my goals and interests.
    • My father's involvement in my life varies from very involved to barely involved.
    • My father respects my privacy.
    • My father does not take a deep enough interest in my life.
These are 3 of the 10 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Parent Attachment Questionnaire for Older Adolescents Test - Description and methodology of the test

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Older adolescents who want to examine a relationship with a parent can use the Parent Attachment Questionnaire for Older Adolescents Test as a focused self-report. This parent attachment questionnaire offers a structured way to reflect on how a father is experienced in everyday communication, help-seeking, personal decisions, and emotional sharing, without treating one interaction as the whole relationship.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions examine how an older adolescent experiences a parent, especially a father, through love, help, advice, privacy, freedom, control, interest, and emotional sharing. The questionnaire groups these concrete situations into patterns relevant to parent attachment for older adolescents, including distance, insecurity, or dependable closeness.

The result uses three dimensions:

  • Avoidant (0-10) measures greater distance, reduced positive interest, hostility, and lower emotional closeness: Low avoidant (0-3), Moderate avoidant (4-6), High avoidant (7-10).
  • Anxious (0-10) measures directiveness, low interest, hostility, and inconsistent parenting: Low (0-3), Moderate (4-6), High (7-10).
  • Secure (0-10) measures positive involvement, autonomy support, consistency, and low hostility: Low (0-3), Moderate (4-7), High (8-10).

Each displayed band indicates the degree to which its named pattern is represented on that scale; the three results should be read separately rather than reduced to one dominant tendency.

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each prompt uses short, forced-choice statements about interactions, parental behavior, and the adolescent's reactions and perceptions, and the respondent selects the option that best matches experience. Items address help in difficulty, advice, freedom, privacy, parental interest, emotional disclosure, and relationship stability. These scenarios make the questionnaire useful for considering the father-adolescent relationship rather than relying on abstract personality adjectives.

The scoring produces a profile across three dimensions rather than one total. Results classify each dimension into displayed bands, but the exact point contribution assigned to each response is not stated and should not be inferred from score ranges.

Its evidence base is conceptually consistent with the Yaremchuk Parent Attachment Questionnaire (Yaremchuk, 2005). Ainsworth's work on attachment beyond infancy provides a framework for distinguishing secure from less secure patterns. This online questionnaire is not the published instrument or a replication of its research procedure.

The displayed results use descriptive bands for each dimension. Because it is a self-report rather than a diagnostic assessment, current conflict, memory, and the wish to present the relationship favorably can influence the profile.

Author: Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, Phillip R. Shaver
Literature:
  • Yaremchuk, Maria Viktorovna. (2005). Attachment Characteristics in Parent-Child Relationships and Love Relationships Among Older Adolescents. Psychological Science and Education, 10(3), 86-94.
  • Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter. (1979). Infant-Mother Attachment. American Psychologist, 34(10), 932-937. 10.1037/0003-066X.34.10.932
  • Ainsworth, Mary D. Salter. (1989). Attachments Beyond Infancy. American Psychologist, 44(4), 709-716. 10.1037/0003-066X.44.4.709

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