Experiences in Close Relationships – Revised

Overview

The Experiences in Close Relationships – Revised (ECR-R) is a 36-item self-report questionnaire developed by Fraley, Waller, and Brennan (2000) to measure adult romantic attachment. It captures how you generally experience emotionally intimate relationships.

What it measures

The ECR-R yields two dimensions, each scored as the mean of 18 items on a 1–7 scale:

• Attachment anxiety — fear of rejection and abandonment, and a strong need for reassurance.
• Attachment avoidance — discomfort with closeness and dependence, and a preference for emotional distance.

Together the two dimensions describe broad attachment patterns (for example, secure, preoccupied, dismissing, or fearful). Your result below reports your score on each of the two dimensions separately rather than assigning a single style label. Higher scores indicate greater anxiety or avoidance. Several items are reverse-scored.

Reference bands (guidance, not official clinical cut-offs): low below 3.0, moderate 3.0–4.99, high 5.0 and above. This is an educational screening measure, not a diagnostic test.

Reference

Fraley, R. C., Waller, N. G., & Brennan, K. A. (2000). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(2), 350–365.