Yearner Test
The yearner spectrum encompasses a range of traits characterized by intense emotional longing, romantic idealization, and a preference for fantasy over action. However, there is considerable variation in the type and intensity of these traits.
This test combines insights from prior scientific research on attachment theory, emotional regulation, and fantasy proneness to provide a single, composite test for measuring yearner tendencies across eight different domains, inspired by works such as Bowlby (1969) on attachment and Turkle (2011) on digital disconnection.
Where do you fall on the yearner spectrum? For each of the following questions, indicate your level of agreement below.
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Rejection fears keep me from pursuing what I desire.
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The IDRlabs Yearner Spectrum Test (IDR-YRST) was developed by IDRlabs. The IDR-YRST is inspired by observations and research on attachment styles and emotional longing, including the impact of idealization and fantasy on cognitive and relational behaviors, drawing from Bowlby (1969) and Mikulincer & Shaver (2007). The IDR-YRST is not associated with any specific researchers in the field of attachment psychology or any affiliated research institutions.
The test provides feedback such as the following:
Anxious Idealization: Yearner individuals often idealize unavailable objects of desire, finding emotional intensity in the unattainable, rooted in anxious attachment patterns.
Fantasy Immersion: People with yearner traits immerse themselves in elaborate fantasies, deriving satisfaction from anticipation rather than reality.
Emotional Suspension: Yearners maintain a state of perpetual longing, suspending action to preserve the purity of desire.
Sincere Depth: They embrace unironic emotional sincerity as a core identity, signaling depth through vulnerability in yearning.
Parasocial Longing: Yearners form intense connections to distant figures via media or online parasocial relationships, blending fantasy with emotional investment.
Melancholic Reward: Their reward system thrives on the dopamine of unmet desire, romanticizing melancholy as a form of aesthetic fulfillment.
Avoidant Fantasy: Preferring imagined intimacy over real vulnerability, yearners use fantasy as a defense against rejection.
Romantic Temporal Drift: Yearners live in a liminal "almost" future, delaying gratification to sustain the thrill of wanting.
As the publishers of this free online yearner spectrum test, which allows you to screen yourself for the signs and traits of this temperament, 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 Yearner 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.
Why Use This Test?
1. Free. This Yearner Spectrum Test is delivered to you free of charge and will allow you to obtain your scores related to anxious idealization, fantasy immersion, emotional suspension, sincere depth, parasocial longing, melancholic reward, avoidant fantasy, and romantic temporal drift.
2. Psychologically oriented. The feedback delivered by this instrument is inspired by attachment theory and emotional dynamics research and is designed to deliver a clear picture of the respondent’s current traits indicating yearner temperament as measured according to standardized items.
3. Statistical controls. Statistical analysis of the test is conducted to ensure maximum accuracy and validity of the test scores.
4. Made by professionals. The present test has been made with the input of people who work professionally with psychology and individual differences research.