VINELAND SOCIAL MATURITY SCALE

- Vsms developed by American psychologist Edger Arnold Doll(1953), published in 1936.

- Indian adaptation by Dr A Malin during his work at Nagpur Guidance and Conselling
Centre.
- The items in test were arranged in order of ‘normal average life age progression’.
- 89 are there in Indian adaptation, arranged in increasing order of difficulty.
- Purpose: Child guidance, child training and distinguish between mentally
retarded/intellectually disabled child, with or without social competence.
- Concepts: read in detail. Anything can be asked from following: Social Maturity, Social
Age
Social Quotient
- SOCIAL AREAS:
- Self help general
- Self help eating
- Self Help Dressing
- Self Direction
- Occupation
- Communication
- Locomotion
- Socialization

SCORING

Compute SQ by dividing SA by CA , MULTIPLY BY 100

SQ= SA/CA*100.