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Attachment Styles and Close Relationships

Thank you for completing the Close Relationships Questionnaire/Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised
Questionnaire. This questionnaire is designed to measure your attachment style--the way you relate to others in
the context of intimate relationships. As you might suspect, people differ greatly in the ways in which they
approach close relationships. For example, some people are comfortable opening up to others emotionally,
whereas others are reluctant to do so.

According to attachment theory and research, there are two fundamental ways in which people differ from one
another in the way they think about relationships. First, some people are more anxious than others. People who
are high in attachment-related anxiety tend to worry about whether their partners really love them and often
fear rejection. People low on this dimension are much less worried about such matters. Second, some people are
more avoidant than others. People who are high in attachment-related avoidance are less comfortable
depending on others and opening up to others.

According to your questionnaire responses, your attachment-related anxiety score is 4.72, on a scale ranging from
1 (low anxiety) to 7 (high anxiety). Your attachment-related avoidance score is 3.33, on a scale ranging from 1
(low avoidance) to 7 (high avoidance).

We have plotted your two scores in the two-dimensional space defined by attachment-related anxiety and
avoidance. Your approximate position in this space is denoted by the blue dot. (Note: If you left any of the
questions unanswered, then these scores may be inaccurate.)

As you can see in this graph, the two dimensions of anxiety and avoidance can be combined to create interesting
combinations of attachment styles. For example people who are low in both attachment-related anxiety and
avoidance are generally considered secure because they don't typically worry about whether their partners are
going to reject them and they are comfortable being emotionally close to others.

Combining your anxiety and avoidance scores, you fall into the preoccupied region of the space. Previous
research on attachment styles indicates that preoccupied people tend to have highly conflictual relationships.
Although they are comfortable expressing their emotions, preoccupied individuals often experience a lot of
negative emotions, which can often interfere with their relationships.

Since the mid-1980's, a lot of research has been conducted on attachment styles. To learn more about this
research, please visit this link. Thank you again for visiting this site.

For more on-line personality and relationship tests, please visit yourPersonality.net

Note: This web questionnaire was designed for educational purposes. If you wish to print the page, please note
that the background axes in the graph will not print by default from most browsers unless you change the print
options to allow background images to print.

Technical notes: The items used in this questionnaire come from the Experiences in Close Relationships - Revised
(ECR-R) questionnaire, by Fraley, Brennan, and Waller (2000).

Fraley, R. C., Waller, N. G., & Brennan, K. G. (2000). An item response theory analysis of self-report measures of
adult attachment. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78, 350-365.

This page was designed by R. Chris Fraley at the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois for
educational purposes. If you have questions about this page, please feel free to e-mail me. I will try to respond to
your e-mail, but please keep in mind that I cannot always do so due to time constraints. I am not in a position to
provide counseling, personal advice, referrals, or commentary regarding your specific scores.

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