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Take this 20-item Communication Style Quiz to see how you tend to speak, listen, and connect in relationships and at work, with clear, non-judgmental feedback.
Communication Style Quiz – Understand Your Patterns
Relationships
This Communication Style Quiz is a short relationship-focused test that looks at how you usually speak, listen, and get your point across with the people around you. It has 20 quick questions and is designed for adults who want a clearer language for their everyday communication patterns in relationships, at work, and in social life.
This quiz gives you a structured way to look at the habits you already have in conversations, instead of leaving everything to vague impressions like “I’m just bad at communication.” It highlights the patterns that show up when you try to explain yourself, handle tension, or support others.
At its core, this quiz is about how you show up when you talk with other people: how easily you speak up, how directly you share your views, and how tuned in you are to what others are feeling. Instead of judging you as “good” or “bad” at communication, it maps out your natural style.
Many people come to this topic with questions like:
Communication research often talks about patterns like assertiveness (how strongly you push your ideas or needs) and responsiveness (how much you track and respond to others’ feelings). This quiz uses those ideas in a simplified, user-friendly way to help you see where you tend to land in everyday life.
This quiz builds on two main strands of communication research:
In this quiz, your responses feed into two underlying dimensions:
By separating these dimensions, the test can show you that, for example, you might be very tuned in to others’ feelings but hesitant to assert your own needs, or vice versa. The combination of your scores is then summarized as one of several easy-to-understand communication styles.
This is a self-report, self-reflection tool. It is inspired by public communication research and common training models, but it is not a formal psychological or clinical assessment.
The quiz focuses on two core dimensions and uses their combination to describe your style:
Assertiveness
How likely you are to speak up, take initiative, and guide conversations. Higher scores suggest a more direct, proactive, and goal-oriented way of communicating; lower scores lean toward a quieter, more reserved, or accommodating approach.
Responsiveness
How much you tune into others’ feelings and adjust to the emotional climate. Higher scores suggest greater empathy, warmth, and emotional awareness; lower scores lean toward focusing mainly on tasks, facts, or efficiency.
From your pattern on these two dimensions, the quiz summarizes your result as one of several styles, such as an Analytical, Driver, Amiable, Expressive, or Balanced communicator. These labels are meant to be convenient shortcuts, not boxes you must stay in.
You may feel that you are somewhere between two styles, or that different roles bring out different sides of you. That is completely normal, and your result page will speak to this flexibility as well.
The Communication Style Quiz includes 20 self-report items. Most people finish it in about 5–7 minutes, depending on how long they pause to reflect on each statement.
All items use a simple agreement scale (“strongly disagree” to “strongly agree”), with no right or wrong answers.
Each item describes a situation or habit, and you choose how much it matches your usual behavior. Some statements will feel obviously true or false; others may feel more context-dependent, and that’s okay. Try to answer based on how you normally act across many situations, not just one extreme memory.
If you notice a gap between how you usually respond and how you wish you responded, that’s valuable information too—but for scoring purposes, it’s most helpful to answer for your current pattern, not your ideal future self.
When in doubt, think about what you tend to do “most of the time” with a range of people, rather than what you did once in a particularly good or bad week.
Behind the scenes, each item contributes to one of the two underlying dimensions (Assertiveness and Responsiveness). Some items reflect higher levels directly (agreeing suggests higher scores), while a few reverse-worded items are flipped before scoring so they line up in the same direction.
Your final result combines:
This test is especially helpful if you:
Please remember this test is not a substitute for professional help
This quiz is not designed to diagnose any mental health condition or to guide urgent decisions about safety, relationships, or work. It cannot replace personalized support from a counselor, therapist, coach, or other qualified professional.
If you feel overwhelmed by conflict, experience intense or long-lasting distress around communication, or find that your relationships or work life are severely affected, it may be more helpful to talk directly with a professional rather than relying only on an online quiz.
If you are facing a crisis, feeling unsafe, or thinking about harming yourself or someone else, please contact local emergency services or crisis hotlines instead of using this test as your main source of help.
Your result page does not rank you as “good” or “bad” at communication. Instead, it offers a snapshot of patterns that may already be there, putting them into clearer words so you can work with them more intentionally.
You’ll see a named style along with a short description, for example:
In addition, the full report highlights:
Your result is a snapshot of how you answered a specific set of questions at a particular time. It gives you a language and a map, but it does not define every conversation you will ever have.
Styles can and do change over time. You might find that as you become more aware of your patterns and experiment with new habits, your answers—and therefore your style labels—shift as well.
Think of your result as a mirror that reflects some of your current tendencies, not as a label that limits who you are allowed to become.
To get the most value from your result:
If your communication patterns are tied to deeper emotional struggles, trauma, or long-standing conflicts, online tools like this quiz are best used as supporting prompts in a conversation with a trained professional, not as a replacement for that support.
Many people find it helpful to share their communication style result with:
You are always in control of how much you share. You might choose to show only certain sections of your result, or use it simply as a reference point in your own words rather than reading it out loud.
You tend to have a relatively balanced mix of directness and emotional awareness. You may not lean strongly toward any single style, and you can often adjust how you communicate based on the situation.
You tend to communicate in an energetic, open, and people-oriented way. You often bring enthusiasm, stories, and emotional color into conversations.
You tend to communicate in a direct, decisive, and goal-focused way. You like getting to the point quickly and moving conversations toward clear outcomes.
You tend to communicate in a warm, supportive, and relationship-focused way. You care deeply about how others feel and often work to keep conversations harmonious.
You tend to approach communication in a calm, thoughtful, and information-focused way. Rather than rushing to speak, you usually gather facts, think things through, and choose your words carefully.