Relationship Profile Test (RPT)

For readers who want to understand how they approach closeness, support, independence, and conflict, the Relationship Profile Test (RPT) provides structured questions about everyday interactions. It focuses on close relationship dynamics involving reassurance, responsibility, personal space, trust, and disagreement. The assessment highlights tendencies that may clarify where flexibility, distance, or reliance on others becomes especially noticeable.

What This Assessment Explores

These statements examine how a person handles closeness, responsibility, trust, conflict, reassurance, personal space, and emotional disclosure. They are intended for people reflecting on their own relationship patterns, not for assigning a single global type. The questionnaire connects everyday reactions with three related dimensions:

• Healthy Dependency (10-50) captures interpersonal flexibility, comfort seeking help when needed, and capacity for enduring emotional relationships; Lower 10-29, Moderate 30-39, Higher 40-50.
• Dysfunctional Detachment (10-50) captures difficulty forming close connections, fear of intimacy, and a strong preference for independence; Low 10-27, Moderate 28-37, High 38-50.
• Destructive Overdependence (10-50) captures an excessive need for closeness, approval, and support alongside rejection anxiety or low confidence; Low 10-22, Moderate 23-34, High 35-50.

Methodology and Evidence Base

Each statement in this relationship questionnaire uses five response points, ranging from not at all characteristic or true to very characteristic or true, with an unsure midpoint. Items cover support-seeking, responsibility, independence, trust, disclosure, criticism, conflict repair, and emotional reliance. Responses form separate dimension scores rather than one overall verdict.

The evidence base includes the published Relationship Profile Test developed by Bornstein and colleagues. This online questionnaire is conceptually consistent with that instrument’s dependency-detachment model, but it is not presented as that measure, an adaptation, or a version validated by its studies. Research on the published instrument connects its dimensions with attachment, interpersonal functioning, psychological functioning, psychopathology, and adult attachment. Those findings contextualize the constructs without validating every online administration.

For interpretation, the result is most useful for noticing patterns and contrasts across situations. The questionnaire reports labelled bands for each dimension, with ranges organizing the displayed score. Current circumstances, self-awareness, candor, and response style can affect self-report, so an unexpected score is best treated as a prompt for reflection rather than a complete account of a person's relationships.