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Emotional Abuse Test

This 14-question self-test may help you become aware of some signs and symptoms of an emotionally abusive relationship. The questions refer to how you have behaved and felt DURING MOST OF YOUR CURRENT RELATIONSHIP

To take the questionnaire, please click the radio button next to the selection which best reflects how each statement applies to you. If you have usually been one way and have recently changed, be sure to choose the statement that applies to how you have USUALLY BEEN.

When your quiz is scored, one of 3 different information pages will appear to describe the results for scores in your range.

1. I am anxious, nervous, about my partners attitudes or moods.
2. I feel guilty about my partners resentment.
3. I am anxious, nervous or worried about my partners anger.
4. I am anxious, nervous or worried about my partners sarcasm, criticism, frowns, glares or gestures(like finger pointing or making a fist).
5. I am anxious, nervous or worried about my partners cold shoulders or stonewalling.
6. I edit my thoughts before I speak and second guess my behaviour before I do anything, in fear that I might 'set him/her' off or cause the 'silent treatment'.
7. My partner is fine one minute and into a tirade the next, all seemingly over nothing or about the same thing over and over.
8. I feel tense when I hear the door open or when my partner comes into the room.
9. When I walk by my partner, my shoulders tense, until we get past each other.
10. I think that if I just tried harder things might be alright.
11. I feel that nothing I do is good enough.
12. Our relationship is in a cold stand off(disagreements are minimal, but there's a chilly wall between us).
13. My defensiveness and reactions to my partner are on 'auto pilot' like they just happen on their own.
14. I feel stomach distress or 'a pit in my stomach' or headaches or muscle aches that have little to do with physical exertion.