Attachment Style Test: 4 Types

Attachment theory began with John Bowlby's work on the bond between children and caregivers, and was later extended to adult relationships: how you move toward someone, how you handle distance, and how you steady yourself when things feel uncertain. A common four-type map crosses anxiety about being left with avoidance of closeness, giving secure, anxious, avoidant and fearful-avoidant patterns.

This test turns those four patterns into 24 everyday situations — an argument, an unanswered message, a changed plan, an unexpected compliment. Every option adds weight to one or two tendencies. Scores are normalized against each type's own maximum into a 0–100 spectrum; the highest type is your main one, and all four are shown together. Most people are not a pure type: patterns blend and shift with the person and the stage of a relationship.

Think of it as a mirror to talk over, not a scale. There are no norms, no clinical cutoffs and no claims about personality disorders or mental health. The most useful move is usually to compare spectra with someone else and swap 'why are you like this' for 'we have different defaults'.