Avoidant Attachment Personality Professional Test (Adult Version)

I. What is Avoidant Attachment?

Avoidant attachment is a core type of adult attachment pattern, fundamentally characterized by an individual's habitual tendency to maintain emotional distance from partners in intimate relationships, extremely emphasizing self-independence, and suppressing and denying vulnerable emotions to protect themselves from potential relationship harm. This pattern does not stem from indifference to intimacy, but from a deep-seated fear of profound emotional connection.

A typical individual with avoidant attachment usually exhibits the following core conflicts in relationships:

• Desires to be understood, yet fears revealing their true self
• Needs to be cared for, yet feels suffocated by "excessive closeness"
• Wishes to establish stable relationships, yet worries about being constrained and losing freedom

II. Theoretical Basis of Test Design: Bartholomew & Ainsworth

This scale is fundamentally designed based on Bartholomew's Four-Category Model of Adult Attachment and Ainsworth's Attachment Behavioral System Theory. Bartholomew's theory clearly categorizes adult attachment into secure, anxious, dismissing-avoidant, and fearful-avoidant types. This test precisely focuses on the two core subtypes of "dismissing avoidance" and "indifferent avoidance", excluding interfering items with anxious and secure traits.

Different from general attachment scales, this test uses scenario-based, life-oriented indirect questioning to avoid direct personality inquiries, thereby accurately capturing an individual's implicit avoidant characteristics across four levels: cognition, behavior, emotion, and interpersonal relations. All items are originally designed with no copyright conflicts, and test points are unique and non-repetitive.

III. Core Dimensions and Structure of This Test

This test comprises 30 carefully designed single-choice questions, comprehensively covering the four core manifestations of avoidant attachment, with clear and non-overlapping dimensional divisions:

• Intimacy Aversion: Tests an individual's instinctive aversion to deep intimacy, emotional bonding, and relationship fusion.
• Self-Independence Rigidity: Tests an individual's extreme obsession with self-independence, resistance to others' help, and refusal of dependent behavioral patterns.
• Emotional Detachment & Blunting: Tests an individual's emotional traits of indifference, suppression, and avoidance of empathy towards their own and others' emotions.
• Conflict Avoidance Tendency: Tests an individual's coping patterns of avoidance, cold treatment, and disconnection withdrawal in interpersonal conflicts and emotional disagreements.

IV. How to Understand Your Test Results?

After completing the test, the system will comprehensively evaluate based on the total average score and four sub-dimensions, and accurately determine your attachment pattern as one of the following four types. Please read carefully to identify your emotional positioning:

• Secure Attachment Type: You possess a healthy and stable attachment pattern, able to freely balance intimacy and independence, neither fearing closeness nor excessively worrying about separation. You understand both dependence and solitude, being the most comfortable and at ease in relationships.
• Mild Detachment Type: You only instinctively "take a step back" when facing high pressure or excessively close relationships, preserving personal space. Essentially, you can still establish deep connections, just occasionally needing solitude to recharge.
• Typical Avoidant Type: You are a typical avoidant attachment personality. You habitually pursue independence, resist deep intimacy, and excel at emotional self-enclosure. Although there is a deep desire for stable relationships, instinctive detachment often hinders emotional connection, leading to cold relationships.
• Extreme Detachment Type: You are in a highly self-enclosed state, extremely averse to intimate bonding, completely reliant on yourself, refusing anyone's intervention. Emotions are highly blunted, showing extreme resistance to interpersonal conflicts and emotional entanglements. Establishing and maintaining stable, deep relationships is a huge challenge for you.

V. Scoring Instructions

This scale uses a 1-5 forward scoring system. The higher the score for options aligning with avoidant traits, the stronger the avoidant tendency. The system will first calculate your independent scores across the four dimensions, then combine with the total score to ultimately provide the attachment type most consistent with your current state and targeted growth recommendations.