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Attachment Style Assessment

Twelve statements measuring two independent dimensions, anxiety and avoidance, the same two dimensions researchers use to map adult attachment.

This is a short, non-clinical adaptation for self-reflection, built on published attachment research. It is not the original validated instrument and not a diagnostic tool. Attachment patterns are more fluid than any twelve-item test can capture.

12 statements, about 4 minutes, no sign-up

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The four profiles

This test can place you in one of four profiles, not just two. Secure is one of them, and it is the most common outcome in general population research, not a rare exception.

Secure

Low anxiety and low avoidance

You generally feel steady in closeness and do not spend much energy worrying about where you stand. Conflict feels solvable to you, not threatening, and needing your partner does not feel like a weakness you have to hide.

Anxious-Preoccupied

High anxiety, low avoidance

Closeness feels good, and distance, even ordinary, non-personal distance, can quietly set off worry. You tend to notice shifts in your partner's mood or attention fast, sometimes before they are aware anything has shifted at all. Reassurance matters to you more than most people realize until you are not getting enough of it.

Dismissive-Avoidant

Low anxiety, high avoidance

Independence feels safer than intense closeness, especially early on or during conflict. You are not avoiding your partner so much as managing how much intensity feels tolerable at once. Needing space is not rejection, even though it can look that way from the outside.

Fearful-Avoidant

High anxiety and high avoidance

You want closeness and find it unsettling at the same time, which can feel contradictory from the inside. Part of you leans toward your partner for reassurance, part of you pulls back when things get too close, too fast. This combination is well documented in the research and is not a flaw, it usually means both needs deserve attention rather than one canceling out the other.

Where the questions come from

The two-dimension model of adult attachment comes from Brennan, Clark and Shaver (1998), operationalised here as a short adaptation in the spirit of the ECR-R (Fraley, Waller and Brennan, 2000). Anxiety and avoidance are scored independently, and the four categories they produce follow Bartholomew and Horowitz (1991).

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