Assessment Report
Dismissive-Avoidant Attachment — Sample Profile
Your Scores
Where published norms exist, each scale shows a T-score (mean 50, SD 10), your percentile against the reference sample, and the population mean and SD. Scales without published norms show only your raw score — there is no reference sample to compare against.
Attachment Anxiety captures how much you worry about rejection or abandonment in close relationships. Your answers place you in the lower range, where you tend to feel secure about closeness and rarely fear abandonment.
Your responses put Attachment Avoidance toward the higher end. This trait reflects how uncomfortable you are with closeness and dependence; at this standing, you tend to keep emotional distance and to value self-reliance in relationships.
What this means
Within this profile, your relative high point is Attachment Avoidance (how uncomfortable you are with closeness and dependence) (mean response 6.00 per item) and your relative low point is Attachment Anxiety (how much you worry about rejection or abandonment in close relationships) (mean response 2.00 per item). This measure has no published norms, so these are within-person standings — not population comparisons or clinical diagnoses.
About This Measure
The 12-item Experiences in Close Relationships – Short Form (Wei et al., 2007) measures two core dimensions of adult attachment in romantic relationships: Attachment Anxiety (concern about abandonment and partner availability) and Attachment Avoidance (discomfort with closeness and emotional dependence). Scores place you in a two-dimensional space whose quadrants correspond to the Secure, Anxious-Preoccupied, Dismissive-Avoidant, and Fearful-Avoidant prototypes.
Source & attribution: Wei, M., Russell, D. W., Mallinckrodt, B., & Vogel, D. L. (2007). The Experiences in Close Relationship Scale (ECR)-Short Form: Reliability, validity, and factor structure. Journal of Personality Assessment, 88(2), 187-204. Items drawn from Brennan, Clark & Shaver (1998).
This summary reflects your own answers on standardized questionnaires. It is a self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis or a substitute for care from a licensed professional. If anything here concerns you, consider sharing it with a clinician who can see the fuller picture.