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Free Attachment Style Test: Secure, Anxious or Avoidant?
How do you bond when closeness matters? In 30 questions, the Attachment Style Profile maps your attachment anxiety and avoidance on two separate scales, shows where you land among four styles and how firmly, with an instant, customized interpretation of your results.
Free · 30 questions · About 7 minutes · Instant customized interpretation
What you’ll discover
How do you connect when it counts?
Attachment style describes the patterns you bring to close relationships: how much you worry about being left or loved less, and how comfortable you are with closeness and depending on others. Most people sit somewhere between the styles, and the pattern can differ with a partner, friends or family. This profile shows yours.
Attachment anxiety
How much you worry about distance, reassurance, and whether the people you care about will stay close.
Attachment avoidance
How comfortable you are depending on others, sharing feelings and being close, versus preferring self-reliance.
Your style, and how firmly
Where the two scales meet gives Secure, Anxious, Avoidant or Fearful-Avoidant, with a gray-zone reading when you sit near the line.
Customized results, not a form letter
Your interpretation is written for your exact scores: your anxiety and avoidance numbers, your spot on the style map, how clear or close to the line your style is, and the relationship you had in mind while answering. It takes up to a minute to write, so stay on the page. Take a screenshot to keep it. If you enter your email address on the email step, a copy is also sent to you.
The test
Take the Attachment Style Profile
30 questions, about 7 minutes. You’ll choose the relationship you have in mind, then rate how much each statement describes you in close relationships, based on your usual pattern rather than one recent day. There are no good or bad answers. Your customized interpretation appears when you finish; it can take up to a minute, so please stay on the page. You can also enter an optional email to have a copy sent to you.
Attachment in daily life
What is attachment style?
Attachment style is a psychological idea about the emotional habits people carry into close relationships, first described in studies of how children bond with caregivers and later applied to adult relationships. Two dimensions are usually measured: anxiety, which is fear of being left or undervalued, and avoidance, which is discomfort with closeness and dependence. Have a question about the test? Read the Attachment Style Quiz FAQ.
You may have noticed
- Needing a reply and feeling uneasy until it comes
- Pulling back when someone wants to get closer
- Feeling calm and trusting even when a partner is busy or away
- Reading a short text as a sign that something is wrong
- Preferring to handle problems alone rather than ask for help
- Wanting closeness, yet worrying it will hurt
- Feeling smothered when a relationship gets serious
What it measures
The patterns behind your attachment style
Your results describe tendencies, not clinical labels. Each one is an area for reflection, and none of them is simply good or bad.
Fear of abandonment
How much you worry that people you care about may leave or lose interest.
Need for reassurance
How strongly you look for signs that you are valued, and how settled you feel without them.
Comfort with closeness
How easy it feels to be emotionally close, share feelings and let people in.
Self-reliance
How much you prefer to handle things alone rather than depend on others.
Trust in others
Whether you expect people to be there for you when you need them.
Sensitivity to distance
How strongly small changes in someone’s attention, tone or availability affect your mood.
Emotional openness
How freely you share worries and needs, and how safe it feels to do so.
Space and independence
How much room you need to feel like yourself inside a close relationship.
Conflict and closeness
Whether disagreements push you toward the other person, away from them, or both at once.
Capacity to change
How much your patterns can shift with new experiences, supportive relationships and deliberate practice, including self-hypnosis.
Using your results
Find the approach that fits your profile
Read your results as a pattern, not a fixed label. Your two scores and your position on the style map point toward the kind of reflection or exercise likely to feel easiest and most useful for you.
If your style is Secure
Build on your strengths
Goal-directed visualization and relationship-affirming suggestion tend to suit a steady base of trust.
If your style is Anxious
Calming and settling practices
Slow breathing, relaxation inductions and self-soothing suggestion can help you feel steadier between reassurances.
If your style is Avoidant
Gentle, permissive suggestion
Non-directive suggestion and imagery of safe, chosen closeness work without creating a sense of pressure.
If your style is Fearful-Avoidant
Safety first, small steps
Short, grounding practices and slow, predictable steps help when you want closeness and brace against it at the same time.
If you sit in a gray zone
Notice what shifts you
Paying attention to when your pattern leans one way or the other shows which practices fit you best.
If you had one relationship in mind
Compare across relationships
Retaking the profile with a different relationship in mind shows how your pattern changes with the person and the situation.
For hypnotherapists and practitioners
A client’s profile is a useful starting point for conversations about pacing, language, trust and session structure. It supports your professional judgment rather than replacing it.
The research
What the research says about attachment
- It began with early bonds. John Bowlby (1969) proposed that humans are wired to form close emotional bonds, and Mary Ainsworth and colleagues (1978) described distinct patterns in how children respond to closeness and separation.
- It carries into adult relationships. Cindy Hazan and Phillip Shaver (1987) showed that adult romantic bonds follow similar patterns.
- Four styles, two dimensions. Kim Bartholomew and Leonard Horowitz (1991) described four adult styles, and Kelly Brennan, Catherine Clark and Phillip Shaver (1998) showed they can be measured along two dimensions, anxiety and avoidance, which is the approach this profile follows.
- Patterns can change. Attachment tendencies are not fixed. They can shift with new relationships, life events and deliberate personal work.
The Attachment Style Profile is an educational self-assessment rather than a laboratory scale. For more on how you respond to suggestion, try the Trance Receptivity Index or the Suggestibility Test. If you are curious what drives your habits in relationships more broadly, the Enneagram Test looks at your core motivations and how they show up with other people.
What this profile doesn’t diagnose
About the Attachment Style Profile
The Attachment Style Profile is an independent Hypnotechs assessment: 30 questions that take about seven minutes. It’s a tool for education, self-reflection and more customized conversations about how we bond, with an immediate, customized interpretation of every result.
FAQ
Attachment Style Profile: common questions
What is the Attachment Style Profile?
It is a free Hypnotechs self-assessment that explores how you connect in close relationships along two scales, attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance, and where that places you among four styles.
How many questions are there, and how long does it take?
The profile has 30 questions and takes about seven minutes, plus a short opening where you choose the relationship you have in mind.
What is attachment style?
Attachment style is the pattern of feelings and behaviors you bring to close relationships. It is usually described along two dimensions: anxiety about being left or undervalued, and avoidance of closeness and dependence.
What do I get at the end of the test?
Not a form letter. As soon as you finish, you get your anxiety and avoidance scores, each from 15 to 75, a map showing where you land, and an interpretation written for your exact pattern. Writing it can take up to a minute, so please stay on the page until it appears.
How can I save my results?
Take a screenshot of your results page. If you enter an email address on the email step at the start, a copy is also sent to it. That step is your only chance to add one, and without an email your results can’t be recovered. See Where are my quiz results? No account is needed.
What are the four styles?
Secure (low anxiety, low avoidance), Anxious (high anxiety, low avoidance), Avoidant (low anxiety, high avoidance) and Fearful-Avoidant (high on both). Many people sit near a line, and your results say so rather than forcing a label.
What if my scores are near the middle?
Scores from 38 to 52 on either scale are treated as a gray zone. Your interpretation names the styles you sit between and notes that your pattern can shift.
Is one style better than the others?
Secure is associated with comfort in close relationships, but every pattern has strengths and every pattern can change. Read your results as a pattern rather than a grade.
Can I take it for a different relationship?
Yes. At the start you choose the relationship you have in mind, such as a partner, close friends, family or close relationships in general. Retake it for another one to compare.
Can this test diagnose anxiety, trauma or other conditions?
No. The profile is educational. It does not diagnose depression, anxiety disorders, trauma-related conditions, personality disorders or any other medical or mental health condition, and it is not relationship counseling.
Will my results change over time?
They can. Stress, mood, new relationships, major life events and personal work can all shift your results.
Is this test free?
Yes. The Attachment Style Profile is completely free, including your customized interpretation, and you do not need an account. You can also enter an optional email address to receive a copy of your results.
How do you respond to suggestion?
Round out your picture with the free Suggestibility Test: 36 questions and an instant, personalized interpretation based on the work of Dr. John Kappas.
The Attachment Style Profile is an independent educational self-assessment by Hypnotechs. It is not a medical or psychological diagnostic instrument, and your answers can be affected by stress, mood, recent events, health and your surroundings.