Interpersonal issues: 19 questionnaires and rating scales

The SSI is a self-report tool designed to measure social skills in six domains: emotional expressivity, emotional sensitivity, emotional control, social expressivity, social sensitivity, and social control. It allows psychologists to assess individuals' strengths and weaknesses in interpersonal communication and social adjustment.

The MAQ is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure attachment styles and attachment quality in individuals, according to the main styles described in adult attachment theories. It targets several dimensions, including secure, preoccupied, avoidant, and fearful attachment. It is frequently used in both research and clinical practice to assess the nature of an adult's attachment relationships.

The ECR-R is a tool for assessing attachment styles in close relationships by measuring two main dimensions: anxiety and avoidance.

The Relationship Questionnaire (RQ) is a simple tool for assessing attachment styles in adults. It is based on the four-category model proposed by Bartholomew and Horowitz (secure, preoccupied, dismissing, fearful) and provides, in a very brief format, a self-typology of attachment by means of a single representative item for each style.

The ESQ is a self-report questionnaire rooted in the framework of transactional analysis, designed to explore how a person draws on their main ego states in everyday functioning. The tool generally aims to estimate the relative weight of five functional dimensions frequently described in TA: Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Free Child, and Adapted Child. In clinical practice, it can help the psychologist structure the exploration of relational styles, emotion regulation patterns, habitual responses to stress, and interpersonal scripts. The ESQ is mainly used as a screening and clinical reflection instrument, alongside the interview, and not as a stand-alone diagnostic tool.

The Attachment Style Interview (ASI) is a semi-structured interview designed to assess adult attachment styles, focusing on interpersonal experiences and support networks. It provides a detailed assessment of attachment security based on current social interactions, perceived support, and current relationships.

The RSAS is a trait-based self-report questionnaire designed to measure social anhedonia, that is, reduced pleasure, interest, and engagement in interpersonal relationships. Part of the Chapman Psychosis-Proneness Scales, it is mainly used with adults to explore negative schizotypy, social withdrawal, and certain profiles of vulnerability to the schizophrenia spectrum. In clinical practice, it helps the psychologist objectify a lasting lack of interest in social contact and distinguish it from mere social inhibition, social anxiety, or a depressive state, without replacing the clinical interview or the diagnosis.

The SPSSE assesses the level of confidence an individual feels in their ability to handle a variety of social situations effectively. It is particularly used to measure social self-efficacy in adolescents and young adults in clinical or research settings, and it helps identify potential difficulties in social interactions.

The ADA is a brief self-report scale designed to measure manifestations of disorganized attachment in adults. In particular, it explores confusion in attachment relationships, contradictory movements of approach and avoidance, and difficulty regulating emotional experience in close relationships. This tool is mainly useful in research and clinical practice for identifying attachment difficulties in intimate or significant relationships, usually alongside other questionnaires and the clinical interview. It does not constitute a diagnosis on its own and does not replace an in-depth assessment such as an attachment interview.

The IIP-32 is designed to identify and quantify clinically relevant relational difficulties in adults. It explores distress related to interpersonal functioning across 8 domains of the circumplex model, such as control, coldness, social inhibition, lack of assertiveness, or overaccommodation. In clinical practice, it helps objectify the patient's relational profile, guide the functional analysis, monitor progress in psychotherapy, and document changes over the course of treatment. Its brevity makes it particularly useful in consultations, initial assessments, and repeated follow-ups.

The RSQ is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess adult attachment styles according to Bartholomew and Horowitz's four-category model. This tool identifies the secure, preoccupied, dismissing or fearful style in relationships with others.

The RSQ is a self-report questionnaire assessing sensitivity to interpersonal rejection. It presents 18 hypothetical situations involving significant or relationally relevant people (for example friends, parents, a teacher, a romantic partner, an acquaintance) and jointly measures anxiety about possible rejection and the expectation of acceptance. Initially developed with students and young adults, it helps the psychologist identify a relational vulnerability marked by the anxious anticipation of rejection, which is useful in exploring attachment difficulties, relationship conflicts and certain mixed anxiety-depressive complaints.

The ASQ-SF is a self-report tool that measures adult attachment styles, particularly the avoidant and anxious dimensions. It relies on 5 subscales to explore relational dynamics in finer detail, such as need for approval or discomfort with intimacy. Its dimensional structure and clinical norms make it a useful instrument for enriching case formulation and guiding therapeutic interventions focused on interpersonal relationships.

The BVAQ (Bermond-Vorst Alexithymia Questionnaire) is a self-report tool that measures a person's level of alexithymia. It explores five dimensions: difficulty verbalizing emotions, difficulty identifying emotions, operational thinking styles, poor imagination and reduced emotional arousal. It is intended to provide a detailed assessment of an individual's ability to recognize and express their emotions.

The IDI is a self-report questionnaire designed to measure interpersonal dependency, that is, the tendency to markedly seek support, reassurance, and validation from others. It classically explores three dimensions: emotional reliance on another person, lack of social self-confidence, and assertion of autonomy. It helps identify a relational style characterized by a need for support, difficulty functioning alone, fear of separation, or low self-assurance in interactions.

The Relationship Profile Test (RPT) is a self-report measure designed to assess three broad relational styles in adults: autonomy, dependency and the desire to be taken care of. Used mainly to understand interpersonal dynamics, it helps to better identify the problematic relational patterns that may underlie different forms of psychopathology.

The AQC is a self-report tool designed to measure alexithymia in children. It is derived from the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) but adapted for children. It assesses difficulty identifying and describing emotions as well as externally oriented thinking. This questionnaire is used particularly in developmental psychology and child psychiatry.

The ASCQ is a self-report tool for identifying an individual's attachment style across three main dimensions: secure, preoccupied, and avoidant. This questionnaire is used in research and clinical practice to explore how interpersonal relationships are perceived in adulthood.

The SCS-R is a 20-item self-report questionnaire that measures the subjective sense of closeness, belonging, and connection with the social world. It assesses the extent to which the person feels connected to others, comfortable in relationships, and integrated into their social environment, while identifying experiences of distance, isolation, or disconnection. Originally developed and validated with college students, it is widely used in clinical psychology, health psychology, and research to explore the perceived quality of social connection, track its changes over time, and study its association with loneliness, self-esteem, psychological distress, or psychosocial adjustment. It is not a diagnostic tool, but a dimensional measure useful for clinical screening, pre- and post-intervention assessment, and monitoring protective factors related to relational support and sense of belonging.