The “negative parenting test” is going viral on TikTok. People are using it to assess their childhoods. the Negative Parenting Test by Individual Differences Research is based on work by Dr. John Phillip Louis. the Negative Parenting Test by Individual Differences Research is based on work by Dr. John Phillip Louis. The test measures “whether you are struggling with common damaging patterns as a consequence of the way your parents treated you” . Participants must answer 30 questions related to how their parents raised them. The test then determines which negative behavior patterns were most prominent in the parent. The six negative categories are “Competitiveness,” “Rejection,” “Deprivation,” “Overprotection,” “Punishing,” and “Controlling”. each is a tactic that a parent may have used with their child whether they were aware of it or not. TikTokers are sharing their results for better or worse. user @mikeeyboii’s results revealed his father’s negative parenting pattern was “Punishing,” while his mother’s was “Overprotection”