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Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale Test

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Completed in about four minutes, the Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale Test explores how you relate to technology, online identity, and everyday digital habits. Your result highlights patterns in social connection, device reliance, and risk awareness, offering a practical starting point for self-reflection and more balanced daily choices.
Questions: 204 minutes
Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale: agreement scale card
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How the Scales are Structured

Digital SocialityDS
Measures how a person presents and aligns their identity online with offline life and how they build and sustain supportive digital relationships.
example score12/25
12/25Somewhat integratedexample score
5 – 11Less integrated
12 – 18Somewhat integrated
19 – 25Well integrated
A score of 12 falls in the Somewhat integrated range, suggesting moderate consistency in online self-presentation and a developing ability to create and maintain supportive digital connections.
Digital Daily Life ExperienceDDLE
Measures how much a person uses digital devices to support daily functioning and self-development, and the extent of emotional attachment and perceived integration of the device into life.
example score16/35
16/35Low integrationexample score
7 – 16Low integration
17 – 26Moderate integration
27 – 35High integration
A score of 16 falls in the Low integration range, suggesting digital devices are used less as an emotionally significant, central part of everyday life and self-development.
Digital Device ManagementDDM
Measures how well a person recognizes and manages digital risks, regulates online activity, and maintains balance between digital and offline life.
example score23/40
23/40Developing Skillsexample score
8 – 18Needs Support
19 – 29Developing Skills
30 – 40Strong Management
A score of 23 falls in the Developing Skills range, suggesting moderate awareness of digital risks and some self-regulation habits that may be inconsistently applied.
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DATA-BASED USER COHORTS

Who Usually Takes This Test?

Students managing screen time
41%OF USERS
They want to see how well they control time and attention on devices while balancing study, rest, and online communication.
Remote and hybrid workers
34%OF USERS
They take it to understand how digital routines, constant messages, and online collaboration affect focus, boundaries, and stress.
Counseling and clinic clients
25%OF USERS
They use it with a specialist to identify patterns of digital overuse, social support online, and emotional reactions to being constantly connected.
BASED ON AGGREGATED, ANONYMIZED DATA FROM TENS OF THOUSANDS OF FREUDLY USERS.
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See How You Compare

Once you complete the test, your results are compared with real-world data from people in your country.
Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Shaded area — where most people score
Dot — the average
You — your score lands on each curve after the test— your score, after the test
Digital SocialityDS
You?
Average17.4
Typical rangeTypical14.6 – 20.2
Possible5 – 25
Experiencing Digital Everyday LifeEDEL
You?
Average19.7
Typical rangeTypical15.1 – 24.3
Possible7 – 35
Managing Digital DevicesMDD
You?
Average17.5
Typical rangeTypical12.2 – 22.8
Possible8 – 40
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SAMPLE QUESTIONS

Example Questions From the Test

Below are statements about your digital device (DD). This may include a smartphone, computer, or tablet. For each statement, select the response option that best reflects the extent to which you agree with it.
    • Strongly disagree
    • Disagree
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Agree
    • Strongly agree
    • Strongly disagree
    • Disagree
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Agree
    • Strongly agree
    • Strongly disagree
    • Disagree
    • Neither agree nor disagree
    • Agree
    • Completely agree
WHAT THE TEST MEASURES

Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale Test - Description and methodology of the test

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People who want to understand their relationship with connected technology may find the Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale Test useful when habits, online identity, and privacy concerns feel intertwined. This digital self-management assessment is designed for reflective use: it organizes everyday experiences into a profile that can show where technology supports functioning and where reliance or risk awareness deserves closer attention.

What This Assessment Explores

Questions address identity, social feedback, device reliance, distraction, privacy, misinformation, algorithms, and cyber-risk. They suit readers examining digital habits.

The digital daily life scale links technology with identity, functioning, self-understanding, and self-regulation. It produces a profile, not a label. Three dimensions organize it:

  • Digital Sociality (5-25) covers online identity, consistent online and offline self-presentation, and building and maintaining social connections and relational closeness; with Less integrated (5-11), Somewhat integrated (12-18), and Well integrated (19-25).
  • Digital Daily Life Experience (7-35) covers device use for tasks, self-fulfillment, self-understanding, emotional device attachment, and seeing it as integral to life; with Low integration (7-16), Moderate integration (17-26), and High integration (27-35).
  • Digital Device Management (8-40) covers awareness of communication, information, personal-data, and dependence risks, prevention strategies, online regulation, and digital-offline balance; with Needs Support (8-18), Developing Skills (19-29), and Strong Management (30-40).

Methodology and Evidence Base

In practice, this digital life questionnaire uses short self-report statements with five ordered agreement choices, from Strongly disagree to Strongly agree. Results are reported through the displayed scale bands. This format captures perceived habits and awareness rather than observed behavior.

This questionnaire is conceptually consistent with the Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale, but it is not an adaptation of that published instrument. The questionnaire addresses digital identity, everyday technology use, and regulation of risks and dependence. The later DDLSM-2 work discusses integrity, adaptation, and well-being, but those are not dimensions reported by this questionnaire.

The questionnaire provides no population norms or documented rule for converting responses into scale scores, so its bands are descriptive categories rather than norm-referenced or diagnostic thresholds. Scores may also shift with mood, workload, social pressure, current access to devices, and willingness to report uncomfortable habits. Treat the pattern as a prompt to examine concrete situations and choose practical adjustments, not as a final judgment about personality or functioning.

Author: Roy F. Baumeister
Literature:
  • Soldatova, G.U., Chigarkova, S.V., & Ilyukhina, S.N. (2024). Digital extended personality: development and testing of a digital daily life self-management scale. Lomonosov Psychology Journal, 47(2), 175-200. 10.11621/LPJ-24-20
  • Soldatova, G.U., Chigarkova, S.V., & Ilyukhina, S.N. (2025). Extended version of the Digital Daily Life Self-Management Scale (DDLSM-2): Integrity as a potential for adaptation and well-being. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 21(4), 25-37. 10.17759/chp.2025210403

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