Codependency Scale Test

People dealing with intense involvement in a close relationship may use this questionnaire to step back and examine how they respond under pressure. The Codependency Scale Test organizes those responses into one profile that can clarify whether concern for another person is crowding out personal agency. As a codependency questionnaire, it is intended for readers seeking clearer language for close-relationship experiences.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions examine reactions to someone close who is distressed, dependent, or difficult to manage. They cover responsibility for another person’s feelings, people-pleasing, lost sleep, suppressed needs, guilt, rejection, and difficulty saying no. The result reflects a pattern across several areas.

Substance-related items address covering up use, searching for drugs, threats, control, relapse fears, and inability to leave the person alone. The pattern is especially relevant to over-involvement around addiction, while these codependency traits can also appear in other close relationships.

The result brings together these dimensions:

• Emotional over-responsibility covers absorbing another person’s problems and feeling accountable for their choices or well-being.
• Self-neglect, approval-seeking, and boundary strain show whether guilt, people-pleasing, or fear of rejection displace your needs and make saying no difficult.
• The Codependency Level score runs from 0-100: Low (0-33), Moderate (34-66), and High (67-100) mark increasing alignment with pathological emotional dependence that displaces personal needs for another person.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Example items use No, Sometimes, or Yes; some show numeric labels beside the same choices. The selections are combined into one overall result rather than separate named subscales. Because the item-level formula is not stated, exact points per answer should not be inferred from the range.

The General Codependency Assessment Scale (Kulakov, 2006) addresses codependent patterns in drug dependence, and this questionnaire is conceptually consistent with it rather than a direct adaptation. Cermak’s 1986 criteria focus on boundaries, external focus, and self-care. Hughes-Hammer, Martsolf, and Zeller’s Codependency Assessment Tool is a related published instrument; it does not validate this online version.

Used online, this codependency test provides a structured snapshot of self-reported tendencies. Prompts cover concern, concealment, monitoring, threats, relapse fears, and effects on other relationships during substance use. Stress, relationship context, memory, and reluctance to acknowledge painful behavior can affect answers. Interpretation should stay within the documented bands: no item-level formula is stated, so exact points and diagnostic conclusions cannot be inferred from the result alone. Higher results may coincide with anxiety, reduced self-esteem, or social and psychological strain.