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Attachment Style Test
This self-check looks at the two dimensions attachment research uses to describe adult close relationships: attachment anxiety (fear of loss and the need for reassurance) and avoidance (discomfort with closeness and with depending on anyone). It's our own short check along these established dimensions, not the licensed ECR-R.
Attachment Style Self-Check
How accurately does the statement describe your usual experience in close relationships?
What does this check measure?
Six questions cover attachment anxiety: worrying whether you matter enough, needing reassurance, quickly fearing abandonment when someone pulls back. Six cover avoidance: holding part of yourself back, closeness feeling confining, preferring self-reliance over emotional need, going quiet and distant in conflicts. From the two scores, the check sketches which pattern your experience currently resembles most: more secure, more anxious-preoccupied, more dismissive-avoidant, or more fearful-avoidant.
What does the result mean?
Attachment patterns are tendencies, not fixed types. They can differ across relationships and shift with experience, which is good news, because earned security is a real phenomenon. The value of the result is language: knowing whether your relationship stress runs through fear of loss, through discomfort with closeness, or both, tells you what to practice and what to communicate. If relationship patterns keep causing real suffering, couples or individual therapy works on exactly this.
Source
Dimensions from adult attachment research (Brennan, Clark & Shaver; Fraley et al., ECR tradition); deliberately not an ECR-R reproduction. Our own quick check.