Attachment style
How you work in close relationships — and why the same patterns keep repeating.
Adult attachment is not four boxes, it is two dimensions: how much you fear abandonment (anxiety) and how uncomfortable intimacy makes you (avoidance). The famous styles — secure, anxious, avoidant, fearful — are the quadrants of that plane. Here we measure it properly.
Attachment · 2
Attachment anxiety
Fear of abandonment and a need for reassurance in close relationships.
Intimacy avoidance
Discomfort with dependence and emotional closeness.
Where this comes from
This test draws on published, peer-reviewed instruments. It is not a certified adaptation: the items are rewritten in everyday language.
- [1]Brennan, Clark & Shaver (1998). ECR — Attachment Theory and Close Relationships
The original ECR questionnaire, the basis of nearly all later research.
- [2]Wei et al. (2007). ECR Short Form. J. Personality Assessment, 88(2), 187–204
The validated short form this test is modelled on.
- [3]Fraley, Waller & Brennan (2000). ECR-R. JPSP, 78(2), 350–365
Psychometric revision confirming the two continuous dimensions.