Assessment Category
Personality & Interpersonal Functioning
These assessments explore enduring personality traits, emotional styles, attachment patterns, and interpersonal tendencies. Unlike symptom-focused measures, they examine the longer-standing ways you think, relate to others, regulate emotion, and respond to stress.
You may consider this category if you:
- Notice recurring patterns in relationships
- Feel “stuck” in certain interpersonal dynamics
- Want a broader understanding of your personality structure
- Are interested in long-term traits rather than short-term symptoms
- Are engaged in depth-oriented or relational therapy
If your concern is primarily about current mood or anxiety symptoms, other categories may be more appropriate. This section focuses on stable patterns rather than episodic distress.
These assessments are intended to clarify longer-standing personality and relational patterns, not to provide a standalone diagnosis.
PID-5-SF (Personality Inventory for DSM-5 – Short Form)
What this looks at
The PID-5-SF looks at personality traits that can sometimes make life harder, such as negative emotions, pulling away from others, conflict, acting on impulse, and unusual thinking. It focuses on the personality features that may add to distress or get in your way day to day.
You may want to take this if:
- Run into ongoing conflict in your relationships
- Struggle with impulsive choices, strong mood swings, or mistrust of others
- Want to explore personality traits linked to personality disorders
- Are working through a structured clinical assessment with your provider
You may not need this if:
You only want to understand your general personality strengths (see the IPIP-NEO-120). This measure focuses on clinically significant traits rather than everyday ones.
Start Assessment →IPIP-NEO-120
What this looks at
This measure looks at the “Big Five” personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. It gives you a broad, research-based picture of who you are, without focusing on problems or diagnoses.
You may want to take this if:
- Want a broad, research-based overview of your personality
- Are curious about your strengths and natural tendencies rather than pathology
- Want insight into your work style, motivation, and how you connect with others
You may not need this if:
You are mainly exploring personality concerns that affect your mental health. This is a thorough, non-pathologizing look at everyday personality.
Start Assessment →Attachment Style Questionnaire – Short Form (ASQ-SF)
What this looks at
The ASQ-SF looks at how you connect with others in close relationships. It explores how comfortable you feel with closeness, how much you worry about rejection, and how much you value your independence.
You may want to take this if:
- Notice the same patterns showing up in your romantic or close relationships
- Fear being left or feel uneasy with closeness
- Want to understand your attachment style
You may not need this if:
Relationship patterns are not something you want to focus on right now. This measure looks specifically at how you attach in relationships.
Start Assessment →Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR)
What this looks at
The ECR looks at two main parts of attachment: anxiety (a fear of being rejected) and avoidance (discomfort with getting too close). It offers a more detailed picture of how you experience closeness with others.
You may want to take this if:
- Want a more detailed look at your attachment patterns
- Notice jealousy, a need for reassurance, or pulling away in relationships
- Are working on relationship patterns in therapy
You may not need this if:
You would prefer a shorter attachment check-in (see the ASQ-SF). This is a widely used attachment measure in both research and clinical settings.
Start Assessment →UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale
What this looks at
The UPPS-P looks at different kinds of impulsivity. These include acting quickly during strong feelings (good or bad), seeking new and exciting experiences, struggling to plan ahead, and finding it hard to follow through.
You may want to take this if:
- Make decisions you later regret
- Act on impulse when you feel upset or excited
- Find it hard to follow through or plan ahead
- Are curious whether impulsivity plays a part in other concerns
You may not need this if:
Impulsivity is not a concern for you. This measure breaks impulsivity into separate parts instead of treating it as one single trait.
Start Assessment →Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20)
What this looks at
The TAS-20 looks at how easily you can notice and put words to your emotions. It also explores whether you tend to focus more on outside facts than on inner feelings.
You may want to take this if:
- Find it hard to put your feelings into words
- Often say “I don’t know what I feel”
- Focus more on facts than emotions in conversations
- Feel disconnected from your emotional experience
You may not need this if:
You are generally comfortable noticing and sharing your emotions. This measure focuses on emotional awareness rather than how strong your moods feel.
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