Home Attachment Scale Test

Understand your emotional connection to your home in about 3 minutes. Get quick insight into comfort, safety, and inner stability that can support therapy, coaching, or self-reflection.

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Questions: 143 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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Verified by Daniel Hall

Psychologist with 25 years of experience

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3/5

Home Attachment (HA)

This scale measures how emotionally connected, comforted, and “at home” a person feels in their living space.

Low attachment

Moderate attachment

High attachment

1 – 3: Low attachment | 3.1 – 4.4: Moderate attachment | 4.5 – 5: High attachment

A score of 3 indicates low attachment, suggesting a relatively weak emotional bond with home or limited sense of it as a supportive, meaningful space.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

People in life transitions

41%OF USERS

Those who recently moved, are relocating, or changed their household use it to see how quickly a place starts to feel safe and truly theirs.

Therapy and counseling clients

34%OF USERS

People working on anxiety, stress, or identity take it to understand whether their home feels like support or adds tension.

Researchers and practitioners

25%OF USERS

Psychologists, HR specialists, and academics use it as a quick measure of how a living environment relates to wellbeing and resilience.

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.

Attachment to Home (AtH)

Average

3.6

Normal range

2.9 — 4.3

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This curve shows how scores are typically distributed.
Once you complete the test, your result will appear on the scale so you can see how you compare.

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

This questionnaire does not have right or wrong answers. Please respond to each item based on your own feelings. Indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with each statement.

- Strongly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Not sure
- Somewhat agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Hard to say
- Somewhat agree
- Strongly agree
- Strongly disagree
- Somewhat disagree
- Hard to say
- Somewhat agree
- Strongly agree

These are 3 of the 14 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

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WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

About This Assessment

Home Attachment Scale Test - Symptoms and Signs

home environment

This self-report measure assesses an individual’s emotional bond with their living environment. The Home Attachment Scale was developed to support brief screening of perceived comfort, familiarity, and psychological meaning associated with one’s home.

It consists of 14 items and typically takes about 3 minutes to complete. Responses can be used to summarize the degree to which the home is experienced as a place of safety, support, and personal significance, which may be clinically relevant when discussing stress, stability, or identity-related concerns.

The Home Attachment Scale is attributed to Mary D. Ainsworth and John Bowlby. Interpretation should consider situational factors (e.g., recent moves, housing instability) and is best integrated with clinical interview and other sources of information rather than used as a standalone indicator.

Author: John Bowlby, Mary D. Ainsworth

Literature: Altman, I., & Low, S. M. (Eds.). Place attachment. Plenum Press. 1992.