Inspired by workplace attachment research (WAM — how attachment styles formed in close relationships show up with the people we work with), adapted here into a short self-reflection tool.

Sources: Attachment theory originates with Bowlby and Ainsworth and was extended to adult relationships by Hazan & Shaver (1987), doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.52.3.511. The workplace adaptation this tool draws on: Neustadt, Chamorro-Premuzic & Furnham (2006), doi.org/10.1027/1614-0001.27.4.208.

New to attachment styles? This plain-language explainer is a good starting point.

If these patterns are causing real distress at work or elsewhere, a therapist familiar with attachment can go far deeper than any quiz.