The Attachment Insight Assessment uses the Attachment Style Questionnaire, Short Form (ASQ-SF), to describe how you approach close relationships. Its five scales (confidence, discomfort with closeness, relationships as secondary, need for approval and preoccupation with relationships) combine into two broad dimensions: attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance. 29 items; about 6 minutes.
This is the Attachment Style Questionnaire – Short Form (ASQ-SF), a 29-item measure of adult attachment — the characteristic ways you relate to closeness, dependence, and reassurance in significant relationships. It scores five subscales: Confidence in Interpersonal Interactions (the secure dimension), Discomfort with Closeness and Relationships as Secondary (which combine into the Avoidant dimension), and Need for Approval and Preoccupation with Relationships (which combine into the Anxious dimension).
Attachment patterns are learned strategies, not character flaws — they were once intelligent adaptations to the relationships you grew up in. Knowing where you sit on the avoidant and anxious dimensions helps explain recurring relationship dynamics (pursuing, distancing, protest behavior, difficulty asking for support) and points to what “earned security” work could look like for you.
Think about your closest relationships — partners, close friends, family — rather than acquaintances. Answer for your typical pattern, not your best day or your worst.
Your responses are confidential.
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