Vineland Social Maturity Scale

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 for the Mentally Retarded, where he developed it.^[4]

Vineland Social Maturity Scale
Purpose	Assess social competence

Details

The test consists of 8 sub-scales measuring:

• Communication skills
• General self-help ability
• Locomotion skills
• Occupation skills
• Self-direction
• Self-help eating
• Self-help dressing
• Socialization skills

See also

• Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale