Gender Male Female Age years old Ethnicity Please select one of the 15 options that fits you best. Attachment Styles and Close Relationships Thank you for completing the questionnaire. Attachment styles characterize the way people relate to others in the context of intimate relationships. Secure people, for example, are low on the dimensions of avoidance and anxiety. They are relatively unconcerned about whether their partner is going to reject them, and they are fairly comfortable depending on others for their relational needs.
Preoccupied people are high in anxiety and low in avoidance.
They are willing to be close to others and dependent on others, yet feel that their partner might not really love them. Fearful people are high on anxiety and high on avoidance. They tend to avoid becoming too close to others, and this avoidance partly stems from a fear of being hurt or rejected. Finally, dismissing people are low in anxiety and high in avoidance. Dismissing people tend to avoid being overly dependent upon others and do not report feeling anxious about relationship issues.