Avoidant Personality Spectrum Test

The IDRlabs Avoidant Personality Spectrum Test (IDR-APST) was developed by IDRlabs. The IDR-APST is based on the work of Dr. Donald R. Lynam and his colleagues, who created the Five Factor Avoidant Assessment (FFAvA). The IDR-APST is not associated with any specific researchers in the field of psychopathology or any affiliated research institutions.

The test provides feedback such as the following: Alienated: Avoidant individuals often feel alienated from those around them since they tend to struggle with perceptions of themselves as inferior and socially inept. Feeling inadequate, devalued, unattractive, or rejected thus spurs the avoidant person to isolate themselves, fostering feelings of emptiness, sadness, and loneliness.

Fragile: One characteristic of the avoidant personality is being fragile. This often manifests as being hypersensitive to criticism or negative comments as well as putting an excessively negative spin on things other people have said about them. People who are high in this trait are very self-conscious and easily hurt or embarrassed, and they tend to misinterpret neutral situations as negative.

Anguished: Individuals with avoidant traits tend to feel angry and sad over their inability to connect with others and make their needs known. As a consequence, they vacillate between desire for affection and fear of rejection. Since they typically avoid conflicts due to their lack of assertiveness, they tend to experience a constant and confusing undercurrent of tension and sorrow.

Vexatious: Avoidant individuals tend to have conflict-ridden memories of problematic past relationships. They are seldom able to access gratitude or well-being, as pessimistic views of past interactions predominate for them.

Excessively Imaginative: Individuals with avoidant personality features tend to daydream, as they depend on imagination to gratify the needs they are often too anxious to live out in real life. They retreat into a fantasy world of their own making to build confidence and to experience the gratification that is otherwise off-limits to them, withdrawing into their reveries to safely discharge frustrated passions and impulses.

As the publishers of this free online avoidant personality spectrum test, which allows you to screen yourself for the signs and symptoms of this condition, we have striven to make the test as reliable and valid as possible by subjecting it to statistical controls and validation. However, free online quizzes such as the present Avoidant Personality Spectrum Test do not provide professional assessments or recommendations of any kind; the test is provided entirely “as-is.” For more information about any of our online tests and quizzes, please consult our Terms of Service.