Child Personal Maturity Scale Test
How the Scales are Structured
Who Usually Takes This Test?
See How You Compare
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Almost never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Most of the time
- Almost always
- Almost never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Most of the time
- Almost always
- Almost never
- Sometimes
- Often
- Most of the time
- Almost always
Child Personal Maturity Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test
For caregivers preparing for a thoughtful conversation about a young child’s development, the Child Personal Maturity Scale Test helps organize observations before they discuss strengths and areas needing attention. A child development questionnaire can make those observations more concrete, helping adults decide what to explore further rather than reducing the child to a single label.
What This Assessment Explores
The result reflects individual personality development and personal maturity in children aged 2 to 7. The questions observe social responses, independent action, adaptation, and persistence in everyday situations, including helping, interaction, conflict, challenge, change, setbacks, and new experiences. For caregivers, this child maturity assessment connects observations with a structured profile.
The assessment reports one result scale, Child Personal Maturity, ranging from 0 to 52, within the ICF-CY framework. Its displayed bands are Low maturity (0-17), Developing (18-34), and Age-appropriate/high (35-52). Higher scores indicate greater personal maturity; a lower band signals behaviors for closer observation, not a fixed deficit.
The profile covers these connected areas:
- Helping and empathy show how readily the child notices distress and provides comfort.
- Independence and initiative reflect self-directed effort, challenge, and new activities.
- Social engagement, adaptability, and persistence describe participation with others and responses to change or setbacks.
Methodology and Evidence Base
Each statement uses a five-point frequency response, from “Almost never” to “Almost always.” Respondents judge how often a behavior is observed. The questionnaire does not specify how responses are weighted; it reports the resulting maturity score and displayed band.
The closest named source is the Child Personal Maturity Scale (Avaeva et al., 2014), whose developmental framing is consistent with the ICF-CY and its attention to functioning in context. Danilchenko and Kazmin (2015) provide related pilot evidence on functionality, temperament, and personality development. Percentile comparisons are described for identifying marked or mild developmental delay. Conceptually, this personal maturity test is consistent with the published Child Personal Maturity Scale and the ICF-CY framework. Its online version does not provide a separate validation or standardization study.
As a personal development test, it provides an interpretive profile rather than a clinical classification. The bands summarize the response but do not explain why a behavior occurs. Ratings can vary with the observer, circumstances, opportunities to show a skill, and reporting consistency, so the pattern is best used to guide further observation.
- Avaeva, V. V., Gromova, Yu. A., Kazmin, A. M., Kolupaeva, O. G., & Salnikova, O. G. (2014). The Scale of Personal Maturity of the Child. Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 3(3), Article 7.
- Danilchenko, D. A., & Kazmin, A. M. (2015). Functionality, Temperament and Development of Personality in Preschool Children: A Pilot Study. Clinical Psychology and Special Education, 4(1), 64-74.
- World Health Organization. (2007). International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children & Youth Version: ICF-CY. Geneva: World Health Organization. ISBN 9789241547321.
- Grist, C. L., & McCord, D. M. (2010). Individual Differences in Preschool Children: Temperament or Personality? Infant and Child Development, 19, 264-274. 10.1002/icd.663.
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