Demand Avoidance Self-Assessment
Helps you reflect on how you respond to demands and expectations, including a strong need for autonomy or control.
What this assessment explores
If you've always found it hard to go along with what's expected of you – even when you want to – and ordinary demands feel like they come with an invisible pressure that triggers something bigger than the situation calls for, this assessment gives you language for that. It explores characteristics associated with extreme demand avoidance: the anxiety-driven need for autonomy, the strategies you might use to avoid demands, and the emotional impact of navigating a world full of expectations. It's built on the EDA-QA, a validated measure designed specifically for adults.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 26 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you tend to respond to demands – from others and from yourself. Some might describe experiences you've never seen named before.
The questions touch on things like:
- Resisting or avoiding demands, even ones you'd actually like to meet
- The strategies you use to get around expectations – negotiating, making excuses, withdrawing
- Mood variability and emotional reactions when demands feel overwhelming
- Your relationship with authority and your need to feel in control of interactions
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how demand avoidance shows up for you – and how much it might be affecting your daily life.
Why this is free and private
Insightable Mind is built by clinical and research psychologists to help people better understand themselves, while contributing to meaningful psychological research. These assessments are offered free as part of that work. Your responses are private – when data is used for research, it's fully anonymised and combined with others to help improve the assessments and answer important questions about human psychology.
Top tips
Our best advice to help you get the most out of your self-assessment:
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