Vineland Social Maturity Scale Explained

Vineland Social Maturity Scale
Purpose:	Assess 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 for the Mentally Retarded, where he developed it.^[4]

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

External resources

• Altepeter. T. Moscato. EM. Cummings. JA. Comparison of scores of hearing-impaired children on the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales and the Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. Psychological Reports. October 1986. 59. 2 Pt 1. 635–9. 10.2466/pr0.1986.59.2.635. 3786629. 29117433.
• Eggert. D. [Comparative study on the social competence of mentally retarded children and nonretarded children using the Vineland-Social-Maturity-Scale (VSMS)].. Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie. 1973. 23. 4. 139–44. 4408987. German.
• Fromme. Donald Karl. On the use of the vineland social maturity scale as an estimate of intellectual functioning. Journal of Clinical Psychology. January 1974. 30. 1. 67–68. 10.1002/1097-4679(197401)30:1<67::AID-JCLP2270300119>3.0.CO;2-V. 4811928.
• Kaplan. Harriett E.. Alatishe. Moses. Comparison of ratings by mothers and teachers on preschool children using the vineland social maturity scale. Psychology in the Schools. January 1976. 13. 1. 27–28. 10.1002/1520-6807(197601)13:1<27::AID-PITS2310130108>3.0.CO;2-J.
• Krugman. Morris. Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. Journal of Consulting Psychology. 1956. 20. 5. 408–409. 10.1037/h0038827.
• No authorship indicated. The measurement of social competence: A manual for the Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. Journal of Consulting Psychology. 1954. 18. 1. 74. 10.1037/h0050243.
• Raggio. DJ. Massingale. TW. Comparability of the Vineland Social Maturity Scale and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale--survey form with infants evaluated for developmental delay.. Perceptual and Motor Skills. October 1990. 71. 2. 415–8. 10.2466/pms.1990.71.2.415. 1701239. 9122805.
• Raggio. DJ. Massingale. TW. Comparison of the Vineland Social Maturity Scale, the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales--survey form, and the Bayley Scales of Infant Development with infants evaluated for developmental delay.. Perceptual and Motor Skills. December 1993. 77. 3 Pt 1. 931–7. 10.2466/pms.1993.77.3.931. 7506826. 33488989.
• Roszkowski. MJ. Concurrent validity of the adaptive behavior scale as assessed by the Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. American Journal of Mental Deficiency. July 1980. 85. 1. 86–9. 7446575.
• Shneidman. Edwin S.. Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. Journal of Consulting Psychology. 1956. 20. 5. 409–410. 10.1037/h0039599.
• Song. AY. Jones. SE. Vineland social maturity scale norm examined--the Wisconsin experience with 0- to 3-year-old children.. American Journal of Mental Deficiency. January 1982. 86. 4. 428–31. 7072767.

Notes and References

1. Gould. J. 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. September 1977. 21. 3. 213–26. 10.1111/j.1365-2788.1977.tb00041.x. 144801.
2. Doll. E. A.. Annotated bibliography on the Vineland Social Maturity Scale.. Journal of Consulting Psychology. 1940. 4. 4. 123–132. 10.1037/h0063524.
3. Book: Doll, Edgar Arnold. The measurement of social competence: a manual for the Vineland social maturity scale. registration. 1953. Educational Test Bureau, Educational Publishers. 10.1037/11349-000. archived at https://archive.org/details/measurementofsoc1953doll
4. Web site: Oxford UNiversity Reference . nd . Vineland Social Maturity Scale . 2022-03-12 . Oxford Reference . en .