Is My Child Securely Attached Quiz

Parents and caregivers can use this questionnaire to reflect on recurring relationship patterns without treating one difficult moment as permanent. The Is My Child Securely Attached Quiz focuses on how support, repair, comfort, and exploration appear in everyday interactions. Families wondering about a baby’s attachment-related behavior can use this attachment behavior assessment to notice patterns and decide what deserves closer attention.

What the Questionnaire Measures

Through situations involving stress, separation, comfort, play, and discovery, the questionnaire considers both sides: the caregiver’s predictable availability and repair after strain, and the child’s observable comfort, reconnection, and secure-base behavior. It suits adults considering current patterns across routines, not one difficult episode.

As a child attachment assessment, it examines observable relationship tendencies rather than assigning a permanent category or judging parenting.

The three result dimensions are:

• Caregiver Availability and Repair (0-15) shows predictable response and repair: Connection under strain (0-5), Developing consistency (6-10), or Consistent availability (11-15).
• Comfort and Reconnection (0-15) shows how the child seeks comfort and reconnects: Limited signs (0-5), Variable connection (6-10), or Consistent connection (11-15).
• Secure-Base Exploration (0-15) shows exploration while staying connected: Limited signs (0-5), Context-dependent signs (6-10), or Consistent signs (11-15).

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each item presents a familiar caregiving situation and four response choices. The choices describe different ways support, repair, comfort, reconnection, or exploration may appear. The respondent selects the option closest to what usually happens, so answers are intended to reflect recurring patterns rather than an isolated event.

Selected responses are grouped into the three displayed dimensions. The scoring is not standardised, and its displayed result bands are unvalidated; the test does not specify how many points an individual answer contributes, so a finer scoring rule should not be inferred. This makes the output a structured self-report profile rather than a direct observation.

Conceptually, the questionnaire is consistent with the Attachment Q-Set, which organizes attachment-related behavior in natural settings, and with the secure-base and reunion concerns examined in Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, and Wall’s work. It is not an adaptation or standardized administration of either published instrument.

This self-report caregiver-child relationship assessment is best interpreted descriptively. Current stress, memory, expectations, culture, disability, temperament, and recent changes can affect responses, and persistent concerns require broader discussion with a qualified child professional.