Vineland Social Maturity Scale

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Vineland Social Maturity Scale
PurposeAssess social competence

The Vineland Social Maturity Scale is a psychometric assessment instrument designed to help in the assessment of social competence. [1] It was developed by the American psychologist Edgar Arnold Doll and published in 1940. [2] He published a manual for it in 1953. [3] Doll named it after the Vineland Training School, where he developed it. [4]

Contents

Details

The test consists of 8 sub-scales measuring:

See also

References

  1. Gould, J (September 1977). "The use of the Vineland Social Maturity Scale, the Merrill-Palmer Scale of mental tests (non-verbal items) and the Reynell Developmental Language Scales with children in contact with the services for severe mental retardation". Journal of Mental Deficiency Research. 21 (3): 213–26. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2788.1977.tb00041.x. PMID   144801.
  2. Doll, E. A. (1940). "Annotated bibliography on the Vineland Social Maturity Scale". Journal of Consulting Psychology. 4 (4): 123–132. doi:10.1037/h0063524.
  3. Doll, Edgar Arnold (1953). The measurement of social competence: a manual for the Vineland social maturity scale . Educational Test Bureau, Educational Publishers. doi:10.1037/11349-000. archived at
  4. Oxford UNiversity Reference (nd). "Vineland Social Maturity Scale". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 2022-03-12.

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