HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How Am I Afraid of Intimacy? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
Fear of intimacy is not a medical diagnosis. Researchers describe it as worry about closeness with someone you care about (Descutner and Thelen, 1991). It is linked to attachment avoidance (Brennan, Clark, and Shaver, 1998). This test looks at emotional closeness, physical affection (like hugs and holding hands), and the fears that make closeness feel risky.
This test looks at five areas: being truly known, physical affection, fear of depending, fear of getting hurt, and fear of losing yourself. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe fear of closeness 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 it does not ask about sexual intimacy. Do not use it to label a partner or anyone else.
Comfort with closeness and touch varies a lot between people and cultures. Some people are private or less touch-oriented by nature, and that is okay.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.