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Relationship Profile Test (RPT)

Understand your relationship style in 4 minutes, including healthy reliance, overdependence, and distancing. Get fast, actionable insights to guide therapy goals and improve personal or work relationships.

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Questions: 304 minutes

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October 2, 2025

October 2, 2025
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October 2, 2025
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How the Scales are Structured

example score

25/50

Healthy Dependency (HD)

Healthy Dependence measures flexible connectedness, including the ability to seek support when needed while maintaining stable, mutually supportive relationships.

Lower

Moderate

Higher

10 – 29: Lower | 30 – 39: Moderate | 40 – 50: Higher

A score of 25 falls in the Lower range, suggesting this person may be less likely to comfortably seek or rely on support in relationships compared with typical levels on this scale.

example score

23/50

Dysfunctional Detachment (DD)

Measures the tendency to avoid closeness and rely on self-sufficiency in ways that hinder forming secure attachment bonds.

Low

Moderate

High

10 – 27: Low | 28 – 37: Moderate | 38 – 50: High

A score of 23 falls in the Low range, suggesting relatively limited dysfunctional detachment and generally preserved capacity for closeness when needed.

example score

25/50

Destructive Overdependence (DO)

Measures the degree of destructive hyper-dependence in relationships, including excessive need for closeness, reassurance, and support alongside fear of rejection.

Low

Moderate

High

10 – 22: Low | 23 – 34: Moderate | 35 – 50: High

A score of 25 falls in the Moderate range, suggesting a noticeable but not extreme tendency toward seeking reassurance and support in close relationships.

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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Therapy and counseling clients

41%OF USERS

People in therapy who want a clearer picture of whether they cling, withdraw, or keep healthy emotional boundaries in relationships.

Psychologists and therapists

34%OF USERS

Clinicians who use a quick tool to assess clients’ dependence and separation patterns to guide treatment planning or group work.

Couples in relationship strain

25%OF USERS

Partners experiencing recurring conflict, fear of intimacy, or distance who want to understand their interaction style and triggers.

BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.

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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.

Healthy Dependence (HD)

Average

20.8

Normal range

15.3 — 26.3

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Dysfunctional Department (DD)

Average

23.2

Normal range

15.8 — 30.6

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Destructive Codependency (DC)

Average

20.2

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13.9 — 26.4

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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

- Not at all characteristic of me
- Somewhat uncharacteristic of me
- Not sure
- Somewhat characteristic of me
- Very characteristic of me
- Not at all characteristic of me
- Rather uncharacteristic of me
- Not sure
- Rather characteristic of me
- Very characteristic of me
- Not at all true of me
- Rather not true of me
- Not sure
- Rather true of me
- Very true of me

These are 3 of the 30 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

Relationship Profile Test (RPT) - Symptoms and Signs

close relationships

love addiction

attachment

In clinical work focused on interpersonal functioning, the Relationship Profile Test (RPT) is used to characterize common patterns in how an individual relates to others. It is designed to support a structured discussion of relational style, particularly around dependence and autonomy.

The measure contains 30 items and typically takes about 4 minutes to complete. Items are intended to differentiate adaptive reliance on others from problematic forms of overdependence and from distancing or detachment that may interfere with close relationships.

Results from the Relationship Profile Test (RPT) may be used to inform case formulation and treatment planning in psychotherapy and related settings, especially when concerns involve boundaries, fear of closeness, or difficulties with self-sufficiency.

Author: Cindy Hazan, Phillip R. Shaver

Literature: Kazdin, A. E. Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence. Sage Publications. 1995.