Experiential Avoidance Self-Assessment
Looks at how you respond to difficult thoughts and feelings, including whether you tend to avoid, push away, or struggle with uncomfortable experiences.
What this assessment explores
When uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, or memories show up, it's natural to want to push them away. But for some people, that avoidance becomes a pattern that quietly starts to shrink their world. This assessment explores how much you tend to avoid your own inner experiences – and whether that might be getting in the way of living the life you want. It's built on the BEAQ, a measure used in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy contexts to understand psychological flexibility.
See the original scaleWhat you can expect
There are 15 questions, and they'll ask you to reflect on how you tend to respond when difficult emotions, thoughts, or sensations arise.
The questions touch on things like:
- Whether you find yourself trying to avoid or escape uncomfortable internal experiences
- How much that avoidance shapes your day-to-day choices and behaviours
- Whether discomfort tends to stop you from doing things that matter to you
Your responses give you a clearer picture of how experiential avoidance is showing up for you – and what that might mean for your wellbeing.
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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