Twelve couple-life situations, four ways of reacting. A game based on adult attachment theory, which says something about the way you love — and about what would do you good.
Attachment theory describes how a child bonds with those who care for them and, since the
1980s, how adults bond with their partners. Researchers distinguish four tendencies: secure,
anxious, avoidant and fearful. They are neither diagnoses nor definitive boxes — a stable
relationship moves the style the right way, a chaotic one the other way —, but they explain a
good share of what repeats from one relationship to the next. This test is a game for
reflection: twelve situations, the answer that resembles you most, and a commented profile. It
does not replace a professional’s view.
A questionnaire with answer choices: answer question after question, and your result appears at the end.
Based on the work of Hazan and Shaver (1987) and Bartholomew and Horowitz (1991) on adult attachment. Twelve questions do not make a clinical assessment: a psychologist has far longer validated questionnaires.
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