Attachment Style Test

With 60 questions taking about 11 minutes, the Attachment Style Test explores how you approach closeness, trust, vulnerability, and independence in relationships. Your result presents a profile across four attachment dimensions, showing a level for each scale and offering a practical starting point for self-reflection and a clearer understanding of your relationship needs.

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Attachment Style Test: sample question card

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How the Scales are Structured

SecureS

Measures the degree to which you tend to feel secure, trusting, and comfortable with closeness and mutual support in relationships.

example score3/15

3/15Low secureexample score

0 – 5Low secure

6 – 10Moderate secure

11 – 15High secure

A score of 3 falls in the Low secure range, suggesting you may find consistent trust, openness, or emotional safety in close relationships harder to access at times.

AnxiousA

Measures the tendency toward anxious attachment patterns such as fear of rejection, heightened need for reassurance, and self-sacrificing behavior in close relationships.

example score3/15

3/15Lowexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 10Moderate

11 – 15High

A score of 3 falls in the Low range, suggesting anxious attachment concerns are generally minimal and may show up only occasionally under stress or uncertainty.

Anxious-AvoidantAA

Measures the degree to which you experience a push–pull pattern in close relationships, wanting intimacy while also pulling away due to mistrust or insecurity.

example score4/15

4/15Lowexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 10Moderate

11 – 15High

A score of 4 falls in the Low range, suggesting this ambivalent closeness-versus-distance pattern is less prominent for you in intimate relationships.

Dismissive-AvoidantDA

Measures the tendency to downplay intimacy and create emotional or physical distance in close relationships.

example score8/15

8/15Moderateexample score

0 – 5Low

6 – 10Moderate

11 – 15High

A score of 8 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not dominant pattern of dismissing closeness and leaning toward independence when relationships feel emotionally demanding.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Relationship Pattern Seekers

41%OF USERS

People who notice repeating conflicts or distance in dating or long-term relationships and want to understand their emotional patterns.

Healing After a Breakup

33%OF USERS

Those recovering from a painful separation who want clarity on what went wrong and how to choose healthier connections next time.

Therapy and Coaching Clients

26%OF USERS

Individuals already doing personal growth work who want a clear attachment-style result to guide conversations and practical changes.

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

Safe (reliable)

You?

Average7

Typical rangeTypical4.8 – 9.1

Possible0 – 15

AnxiousA

You?

Average10.9

Typical rangeTypical9 – 12.8

Possible0 – 15

Anxious-AvoidantA

You?

Average5.1

Typical rangeTypical3.1 – 7.1

Possible0 – 15

Avoidant-dismissiveA

You?

Average4.1

Typical rangeTypical2 – 6.3

Possible0 – 15

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No

These are 3 of the 60 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

close relationships

love

attachment

People who want to understand how they respond to closeness, reassurance, conflict, and personal space may find the Attachment Style Test a useful starting point. It is intended for people reflecting on romantic or close relationships, especially when they notice recurring reactions but cannot easily name the pattern. As an attachment style quiz, it turns those observations into a structured profile rather than a single personality label.

What This Assessment Explores

The questions examine emotional availability, closeness, boundaries, vulnerability, conflict, reassurance, and independence in relationships. They also address reading a partner’s mood, expressing needs, responding to criticism, and feeling safe with intimacy. This profile helps readers notice recurring relationship attachment patterns without treating one result as a fixed identity.

The result is organized around four displayed dimensions:

Secure (0-15) measures trust, openness, safety, and confidence in relationships; bands are Low secure (0-5), Moderate secure (6-10), and High secure (11-15).
Anxious (0-15) reflects fear of rejection or loneliness, self-sacrifice, and reassurance-seeking; bands are Low (0-5), Moderate (6-10), and High (11-15).
Anxious-Avoidant (0-15) captures wanting closeness while withdrawing, with suspiciousness or feeling intimacy is unsafe; bands are Low (0-5), Moderate (6-10), and High (11-15).
Dismissive-Avoidant (0-15) measures distancing, difficulty engaging, and discomfort with vulnerability; bands are Low (0-5), Moderate (6-10), and High (11-15).

Methodology and Scientific Basis

Each item is a brief self-report statement with a Yes/No response. Answers are combined into separate scale totals, so the profile is best read across its dimensions rather than from one response. Results show which tendencies are more or less pronounced.

Gibson’s 2020 book provides theoretical context, while the four-part structure is consistent with Bartholomew and Horowitz’s 1991 four-category model. Hazan and Shaver’s 1987 work linked romantic relationships with attachment processes, and Bowlby’s theory describes how expectations of care and safety can shape closeness. As an attachment style assessment, this questionnaire is conceptually consistent with those attachment models, but is not presented as a validated adaptation or diagnostic instrument.

Because the online format provides no population norms, reliability estimates, or clinical cutoffs, a score shows the tendency most visible in this profile. Read the four totals together: one scale does not by itself define the whole attachment pattern. Responses can shift with current relationship circumstances, mood, self-awareness, and willingness to answer honestly, so the result works best as a reflection prompt when difficulties persist.

Author: John Bowlby, Mary D. Salter Ainsworth

Literature:

Gibson, Thais. Attachment Theory: A Guide to Strengthening the Relationships in Your Life. Rockridge Press, 2020. ISBN 978-1-64611-545-7.
Bartholomew, Kim, and Leonard M. Horowitz. "Attachment Styles Among Young Adults: A Test of a Four-Category Model." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61(2), 226-244, 1991. 10.1037/0022-3514.61.2.226.
Hazan, Cindy, and Phillip R. Shaver. "Romantic Love Conceptualized as an Attachment Process." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 52(3), 511-524, 1987. 10.1037/0022-3514.52.3.511.
Bowlby, John. Attachment and Loss: Volume 1, Attachment. 2nd ed. Basic Books, 1982. ISBN 978-0-465-00543-7.

Updated: 2025-10-02