HOW THIS TEST WORKS
How Do I Have Trust Issues? works
How version core-v1 is scored, and what it can and cannot tell you.
How it is scored
"Trust issues" is not a medical term. It is a common name for finding it hard to trust others. Researchers have studied how much people generally expect others to be honest (Rotter, 1967), and how trust grows in close relationships through reliability and care over time (Rempel, Holmes, and Zanna, 1985).
This test looks at five areas: doubting motives, keeping walls up, needing proof, expecting betrayal, and finding it hard to rebuild trust. Each area has eight sentences. Half describe distrust 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. It cannot tell you whether a particular person can be trusted. Do not use it to make legal, custody, work, or hiring decisions about anyone.
Sometimes distrust is a healthy response to someone who is not trustworthy. Your answers may also reflect one relationship more than others.
This version has not yet been tested with a large group of people, so we do not yet know how accurate it is.