Discover whether you're Secure, Anxious, Avoidant, or Fearful-Avoidant, and what it means for your relationships.
Based on the Experiences in Close Relationships scale · Used in over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies
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What this test unpacks
Three steps, about 10 minutes
Rate how much you agree or disagree with statements about relationships. There are no right or wrong answers.
Your answers are scored on attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, the two dimensions used in published research.
Your attachment style, percentage breakdown, and what it means for your relationships.
Every person falls somewhere across these four patterns. Most of us lean toward one, and that lean shapes every close relationship you'll ever have.
Comfortable with closeness and independence.
You love hard and feel deeply. Sometimes too deeply.
Space and independence feel essential to who you are.
You crave closeness and fear it at the same time.
Styles aren't fixed. They shift with self-awareness, therapy, and the right relationships. This test shows you where you are right now.
A clear breakdown of your scores across all four styles, with what each one means for you.
Your attachment style is…
Not just a label. The percentages behind it.
The two scales the ECR uses to map every attachment pattern.
In arguments, distance, closeness, and trust.
Specific to your result. Concrete things to try this week, mapped to your pattern.
And the partner types that usually mean trouble.
Real stories from readers across the world.
Attachment styles describe how you tend to behave in close relationships, particularly romantic ones. They're shaped by your early experiences with caregivers and influence how you handle conflict, express needs, and respond to closeness. The four main styles are the secure attachment style, the anxious attachment style, the avoidant attachment style, and the fearful-avoidant attachment style (also called disorganised attachment).
Yes, absolutely. Your attachment style isn't set in stone. Through self-awareness, healthy relationships, and sometimes therapy, many people shift toward a more secure style over time. Understanding your current style is the first step.
Your attachment style shapes how you communicate, handle disagreements, express needs, and respond to closeness. For example, someone with an anxious style might overthink a delayed text, while someone avoidant might need more space after a deep conversation. Neither is wrong. Understanding helps.
The questions are all quick agree/disagree style. Most people finish in about 10–15 minutes. There's no timer, so take as long as you need.
No. You can answer based on how you've felt in past relationships, close friendships, or how you think you'd respond. Attachment patterns show up across all kinds of close relationships.
This test is modelled on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) questionnaire by Brennan, Clark & Shaver (1998). The ECR is the most widely used self-report measure of adult attachment in psychology, cited in over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies. It measures two dimensions: attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance.
The most reliable way to find out is to take a properly constructed assessment rather than self-diagnosing from descriptions alone. This test scores your answers across attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, then maps them to one of the four styles. Many people are surprised by their result, because the style that feels most familiar from the outside isn't always the one that best fits your own pattern.
The four styles are: Secure (comfortable with closeness and independence), Anxious (craves closeness, fears abandonment or rejection), Avoidant (values independence, pulls back when things get emotionally intense), and Fearful-Avoidant (also called disorganised: wants closeness but fears it at the same time). Each reflects a different combination of scores on attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance.
Yes. The two terms refer to the same pattern: high attachment anxiety and high attachment avoidance at the same time. "Fearful-avoidant" is the label used in the adult attachment literature by Bartholomew and Horowitz (1991). "Disorganised" comes from infant attachment research. The two terms are often used interchangeably when discussing adults.
Attachment styles aren't fixed. The research documents a well-established phenomenon called "earned security": through self-awareness, therapy, and consistently positive relationship experiences, people genuinely shift toward more secure attachment over time. Longitudinal studies show roughly 30% of people change their attachment classification over a four-year period. Understanding your current pattern is where that shift begins.
This test is based on decades of published attachment research, not pop psychology.
Attachment theory was developed by British psychiatrist John Bowlby in the 1960s and expanded by developmental psychologist Mary Ainsworth, whose research identified distinct patterns in how people form emotional bonds. In 1991, Bartholomew & Horowitz mapped these patterns onto four adult attachment styles: Secure, Anxious-Preoccupied, Dismissive-Avoidant, and Fearful-Avoidant.
This test is modelled on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) questionnaire, published by Brennan, Clark & Shaver in 1998. The ECR measures two core dimensions (attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance) and has been used in over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies worldwide. It is the most widely cited self-report measure of adult attachment in psychology.
Your answers are scored across two dimensions: anxiety (fear of rejection and abandonment) and avoidance (discomfort with closeness and dependence). Your position on these two scales determines which of the four attachment styles best describes your relationship patterns.
Key references
Modelled on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) scale, cited in over 1,000 peer-reviewed studies. Not pop psychology, not Buzzfeed.
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Takes about 10 minutes. Find out whether your attachment style is secure, anxious, avoidant, or fearful-avoidant.
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This test is modelled on the Experiences in Close Relationships (ECR) scale by Brennan, Clark & Shaver (1998), the most widely used self-report measure of adult attachment in psychology.
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