Attachment Style Test

Designed for self-reflection, the Attachment Style Test takes about 15 minutes and contains 10 questions. This questionnaire highlights patterns in closeness, trust, distance, and emotional responses in relationships, helping you consider how you connect with others and understand the profile shown by your results.

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How the Scales are Structured

Secure AttachmentSA

Measures comfort with closeness, trust in others, and a generally secure approach to relationships and support-seeking.

example score5/10

5/10Moderateexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 6Moderate

7 – 10High

A score of 5 suggests a moderate level of secure attachment, indicating some comfort with intimacy and trust alongside occasional uncertainty or guardedness in close relationships.

Avoidant AttachmentAA

Measures the tendency to maintain emotional distance and self-reliance in close relationships, including discomfort with closeness and seeking help.

example score3/10

3/10Lowexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 7Moderate

8 – 10High

A score of 3 falls in the Low range, suggesting generally comfortable closeness with only occasional preference for distance or handling things independently.

Anxious AttachmentAA

Measures the tendency to experience relationship-related worry, need for reassurance, and difficulty tolerating distance from a close partner.

example score4/10

4/10Moderateexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 6Moderate

7 – 10High

A score of 4 indicates a moderate level of anxious attachment, suggesting occasional worries about closeness and reassurance that may arise in some situations but are not consistently dominant.

Disorganized AttachmentDA

Measures the degree of conflicted, inconsistent attachment patterns marked by alternating closeness-seeking and distancing, mistrust, and unpredictability in relationships.

example score8/10

8/10Highexample score

0 – 3Low

4 – 6Moderate

7 – 10High

A score of 8 falls in the High range, suggesting strong fluctuations between wanting closeness and pulling away, with elevated ambivalence and difficulty sustaining trust in relationships.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

People in shaky relationships

41%OF USERS

They take it to understand recurring conflicts, clinginess or distance, and how trust and communication patterns affect their partner.

Self-growth seekers

34%OF USERS

They want clarity on their attachment style and how childhood experiences and asking for help shape their emotions in love.

Couples and premarital partners

25%OF USERS

They use it together to compare styles, spot triggers, and agree on healthier ways to give support and set boundaries.

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

Secure AttachmentSA

You?

Average3.6

Typical rangeTypical2.1 – 5.1

Possible0 – 10

Avoidant AttachmentAA

You?

Average7

Typical rangeTypical5.2 – 8.7

Possible0 – 10

Anxious AttachmentAA

You?

Average3.9

Typical rangeTypical2.4 – 5.3

Possible0 – 10

Disorganized attachmentDa

You?

Average2.8

Typical rangeTypical1.2 – 4.4

Possible0 – 10

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Warm, calm, and safe
- It was easier not to trust and to keep my distance
- I really wanted to please them, but it did not always work
- Sometimes it was wonderful, sometimes it was terrible
- Too kind
- Cold, emotionally closed off
- Anxious
- Unpredictable
- I start talking easily and feel at ease
- I observe and keep quiet
- I try to notice and understand what behavior is accepted here
- Sometimes, unexpectedly, I open up; other times I shut down

These are 3 of the 10 real questions — the rest appear in the test. No sign-up needed to start.

WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Attachment Style Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People seeking a clearer language for recurring patterns in closeness, trust, and dependence may find the Attachment Style Test a useful starting point. As an attachment style questionnaire, it is intended for adults reflecting on romantic and close relationships, family experiences, and reactions to support or distance. The result offers a profile across four patterns, helping readers recognize tendencies without reducing a complex relationship history to one permanent label.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions explore attachment styles in relationships through themes of intimacy, trust, help-seeking, separation, social contact, and reactions to caregivers. The result describes relational tendencies expressed in the answers rather than a complete personality or developmental history.

The four dimensions shown are:

Secure Attachment (0-10) reflects comfort with intimacy, trust, and mutual support; Low 0-3, Moderate 4-6, High 7-10.
Avoidant Attachment (0-10) reflects distance, emotional restraint, self-reliance, and distrust; Low 0-3, Moderate 4-7, High 8-10.
Anxious Attachment (0-10) reflects worry about closeness, separation, rejection, and relationship monitoring; Low 0-3, Moderate 4-6, High 7-10.
Disorganized Attachment (0-10) reflects ambivalence, approach-withdrawal reactions, mistrust, and unpredictability; Low 0-3, Moderate 4-6, High 7-10.

Together, the dimensions show which themes are more prominent; more than one may be elevated, so the profile is not a single fixed type.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each prompt presents four concise response choices describing different ways of relating, trusting, seeking support, and managing closeness. Results are summarized separately across the four dimensions, and the displayed bands provide the intended descriptive interpretation for each scale.

The item themes have a limited conceptual parallel with the Hazan-Shaver adult attachment measure (Hazan & Shaver, 1987), which linked romantic relationships with attachment patterns in adults; that published measure is not validation of this online questionnaire. Bartholomew and Horowitz’s (1991) related four-category model uses different labels and does not validate the four scales. Main and Solomon’s (1990) work concerns disorganized/disoriented behavior in infants, so it provides a developmental parallel to approach-avoidance phenomena, not evidence validating this questionnaire’s disorganized scale. This is an online self-report questionnaire using related attachment concepts.

For readers exploring adult attachment patterns, this questionnaire can support reflection on recurring reactions, especially when a result prompts comparison between the answer choices and real situations. Interpretation should remain contextual: current relationships, mood, memory, self-awareness, and the wish to present oneself favorably can affect self-report.

Author: Cindy Hazan, Phillip R. Shaver

Literature:

Hazan, C., & Shaver, P. R. (1987). Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(3), 511-524. 10.1037/0022-3514.52.3.511
Bartholomew, K., & Horowitz, L. M. (1991). Attachment styles among young adults: A test of a four-category model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(2), 226-244. 10.1037/0022-3514.61.2.226
Main, M., & Solomon, J. (1990). Procedures for identifying infants as disorganized/disoriented during the Ainsworth Strange Situation. In M. T. Greenberg, D. Cicchetti, & E. M. Cummings (Eds.), Attachment in the preschool years: Theory, research, and intervention (pp. 121-160). University of Chicago Press.

Updated: 2025-07-11