HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How Am I Codependent? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Codependency is not a medical diagnosis. It is a common name for a pattern of putting others first to the point of losing yourself, trying to control others, and hiding your own feelings. Researchers have built measures around these ideas (Dear and Roberts, 2005; Marks and others, 2012). The pattern is often discussed in families affected by addiction.
This test looks at five areas: fixing others' problems, trying to control others, losing yourself, your mood depending on theirs, and hiding your feelings. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe the habit and half describe the opposite, so you cannot get a high score just by agreeing with everything. Each answer gives 0 to 4 points.
Each area score runs from 0 to 100. Your overall score is the average of the five areas. Scores are read as Low (0 to 33), Medium (34 to 66), or High (67 to 100). These levels show how you answered. They do not compare you with other people.
PersonalitySite.com wrote all of these questions and descriptions. They are not copied from any other test.
What it cannot tell you
This test is for learning about yourself. It is not a diagnosis, and codependency is not a medical condition. Do not use it to make health, legal, or custody decisions about anyone.
Your answers may reflect one relationship more than others. If you are caring for someone who is very ill, some of these habits may be a normal response to a hard situation.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.