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Deenz Abandonment Anxiety Scale

<p>Fear of abandonment is one of those things almost everyone recognizes but few people can describe precisely. It might look like needing your partner to text back immediately, or feeling a quiet dread every time someone you love travels for work, or never quite letting yourself believe a relationship will last. The Deenz Abandonment Anxiety Scale (DAAS) was built to put some shape around that experience — to take a feeling most people only describe in vague terms and turn it into something you can actually look at and measure.</p>
<p>DAAS-20 asks respondents to answer twenty short statements about how they think and act in close relationships, rating each one from 1 (Strongly Disagree) to 5 (Strongly Agree). It takes most people well under ten minutes. What comes out the other end is a total score between 20 and 100, where higher numbers point toward stronger abandonment-related anxiety — but the total score is really just the headline. The more useful part of the DAAS-20 is what happens underneath it.</p>
<p>That's because "abandonment anxiety" isn't really a single thing. Two people can both score high on this scale and look completely different in how their anxiety plays out. One might be constantly fishing for reassurance, asking their partner over and over if things are okay. Another might seem calm most of the time but fall apart during any real separation. A third might have given up on trust altogether, quietly assuming every relationship has an expiration date. A fourth might handle the fear by pulling away first, keeping people at arm's length so it doesn't hurt as much later. The DAAS-20 tries to capture all four of these patterns separately — Reassurance Seeking, Separation Anxiety, Trust Difficulty, and Emotional Detachment — rather than flattening them into one generic anxiety number.</p>

The scale consists of 20 items evaluated on a 5-point Likert scale (1 = Strongly Disagree through 5 = Strongly Agree). One item—number 16—is reverse-scored to control for response bias.
The items are distributed across four equal subscales:
Reassurance Seeking: items 1, 5, 9, 13, 17 (raw score range 5–25)
Separation Anxiety: items 2, 6, 10, 14, 18 (raw score range 5–25)
Trust Difficulty: items 3, 7, 11, 15, 19 (raw score range 5–25)
Emotional Detachment: items 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 (raw score range 5–25)
The overall score is calculated by summing all 20 processed items, resulting in a total raw score range of 20 to 100. Individual subscale scores are converted into a standardized 0–100 scale to facilitate profiling and comparison.

I need constant proof that my loved ones still care about me.

I feel highly anxious when a loved one goes away for a few days.

I find it hard to believe people when they promise to stay.

I pull back from relationships before the other person can leave.

I ask people close to me if they are going to leave.

Unanswered messages make me panic that something is wrong.

I worry that people only stay with me out of pity.

I avoid getting too attached to people.

I worry others will change their mind about loving me.

I feel uneasy when my partner goes out without me.

I assume close relationships are temporary.

I act like I don't care about a relationship to protect myself.

I feel anxious if my partner does not actively reassure me.

I struggle to focus on daily tasks when a close friend is distant.

I suspect loved ones will find someone better than me.

I easily share my deepest feelings with people close to me.

I seek validation from others to feel secure in relationships.

Physical distance feels like emotional abandonment to me.

I struggle to fully trust that my partner is committed to me.

I push people away when we get too close.