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Adlerian Assessment Measures

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Adlerian Theory, or Individual Psychology, is one that looks at the individual as indivisible and one that is said to be the agent of change that paves the way for how they navigate life. Each individual is said to be a holistic being that must be understood by utilizing all aspects of the individual in order to gain an accurate depciction of how they navigate life and interact with the world around them, how they engage with others, and how they perceive themselves. Because of this, it is important to have assessments and test instruments that reflect this theory. Therefore, many prominent scholars, researchers, clinicians, and students have developed a variety of different measures to look at the individual based on the theory of Adlerian Psychology. This has resulted in measures that look at one's style of life, the life tasks proposed by Adler, personality typologies, various constructs of the self such as birth order and inferiority feelings, social interest, how one engages and interacts with others, measures used in relation to parenting, and organizational tools in relation to business and administration. 

 

The following is a list of Adlerian Assessment Measures used for research, organizational, and clinical purposes:

1. Adlerian Life Tasks Inventory- A measures designed to measure an individual's life tasks in relation to cooperation, respect, and responsibility as well as a person's character development.

2. Adlerian Parenting Education Knowledge Measure- A measure developed to look at parents' perceptions of Adlerian parenting skills and their application of them to their children as well as to identify how well they relate to their children. This measure was created with two accompanying subscales to look at knowledge acquisition based on the STEP program which are: Family Values-Parent Version and Family Values-Adolescent Version.

 3. Adlerian Social Interest Scale-Romantic Relationships (ASIS-RR)- This measure was created to look at the construct of social interest as it applies specficially to the life task of love as well as their interest in belonging to society.

4. BASIS-A- This measure was created as a way to look at an individual's style of life as well as current psychological functioning based on their early childhood memories of experience. 

5. Compartive Feeling of Inferiority Index (CFII)- The CFII is a measure that looks at one's feelings of inferiority based on perceptions that they have about the self as well as in relation to others. This measure is good for deriving empricially driven conclusions as it relates to inherent feelings of inferiority based on childhood experiences to support subjective data about the individual. 

6. Early Recollections Rating Scale (ERRS)- The ERRS was developed as a way to measure personality traits and variables elicited from Early Recollections in an objective manner. It can also be used as a way to look at a person's individual beliefs and perceptions based on their lifestyle.

7. The Five Factor Wellness Inventory (5F-Wel)- The 5F-Wel is a measure that was designed for counselors to use to identify and track one's overall state of well-being. The measure is based on the construct of the life tasks proposed by Adler and used in part to help with identifying decreases in wellness as well as possible burnout among counselors in training.

8. Kern Lifestyle Scale- This measure was developed as a way to gather information in a quick an efficient manner. It looks at lifestyle information based on five scales that are linked to Adlerian typologies. 

9. Langenfeld Inventory of Personality Priorities (LIPP)- This instrument was developed as a way to look at lifestyle in a different perspective. Specifically, the LIPP looks at the lifestyle through personality priorities that a person either adopts or avoids. 

10. Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory- The Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory was developed as a measure to assess one's self-esteem based on Adler's three primary life tasks of social, work, and love. 

11. Lifestyle Personality Inventory (LSPI)- The LSPI is an empirically driven instrument that looks at an individual's personality based on data that would be derived from the Lifestyle Inventory. The measure itself is a measure that is based on the stability of persoanlity at a young age and has since its inception been adapted into the formation of the BASIS-A.

12. Manaster-Perryman Early Recollections Manifest Content Scoring Manual (MPERSM)- This manual was developed as a way to evaluate and gain a deeper depiction of early recollections elicited by an individual in an empirical fashion.

13. Marriage Assessment Instrument- The Marriage Assessment Instrument was developed and designed to be used in marriage counseling for couples that is based on the Lifestyle Inventory and used to help with undersntanding the nature of the relationship among the couple and how to best approach therapy. 

14. Organizational Lifestyle Analysis Tool (OLSA)- The OLSA is a measure that is based on the concept of Lifestyle and used for business and organizaitonal purposes in order to understand how and if a business/organization is functioning the way that it was intended to. It is a tool that is used to help understand the true structure and belief system of the organization as a whole.

15. Positive Discipline Parenting Scale- The Positive Discipline Parenting Scale was developed and designed to be used as a measure that evaluates the effectiveness of Positive Discipline Parenting program as well as the impact it has on the parents that take the program and their overall parenting style.

16. Social Interest Index (SII)- The SII is a measure designed to look at the level of social interest has attained based specifically on the life tasks of work, love, friendship, and self-significance. 

17. Social Interest Index, Short Form (SII-SF)- The SII-SF is a shortened version of the SII developed in effort to look at social interest with more reliable and valid results. This version of the SII looks at a global level of social interest of an individual.

18. Social Interest Scale (SIS)- The SIS was developed as a way to look at social interest based on specific personality traits and variables that an individual possesses. It is also used as a way to look at an individual's interest in the welfare, or well-being, of others.

19. Sulliman Scale of Social Interest (SSSI)- This scale was developed to look at the level of social interest that an individual has based on their present perceptions and beliefs. The SSSI has been linked to identifying the possibility of pathology being present among an individual.

20. Tasks of Life Questionnaire- This questionnaire was designed as a way to measure the three primary life tasks (i.e. love, work, and friendship) among an individual. Specifically, it is set up to get an idea of their level of participation and involvement in each of the life tasks. 

21. White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory- The White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory is a measure that was developed as a way to identify and look at one's place within the family structure based on psychological birth order. The measure itself is a good predictor of psychological brith order as it pertains to one's perceptions and mode of navigating life based on the four categories of the only child, first born, middle born, and youngest child. 

 

*To get a more detailed description of the measures, click on the associated files below with a description of the measure along with references to information about each. 


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How I Remember My Family: A Premarital/Marriage Counseling Questionnaire
Link to article by Richard Watts Apr 1995 · The Family Journal

How I Remember My Family: A Premarital/Marriage Counseling Questionnaire


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Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Couples Therapy, Richard Watts
Resource Type: Article
Direct Link to this Resource

Idea Exchange Column edited by Roland Preston Rice, Individual Psychologist v.4 #1 (1966)
Summary of the integration of Kuder Personal, Early Recollections, and Life Philosophy


Added By: AWisniewski
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Life-Style Assessment/Life-Style Diagnosis, Early Recollections
Resource Type: Article
Idea Exchange Column edited by Roland Preston Rice
Direct Link to this Resource

The Individual Psychologist Looks at Testing by Regine Seidler, Individual Psychologist v.5 #1 (1967)
Discussion of the role of standardized testing within Individual Psychology


Added By: AWisniewski
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Article
The Individual Psychologist Looks at Testing by Regine Seidler
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Dimensions of the Intellect Unmeasured by the Stanford-Binet by G. Edward Stormer, Individual Psychologist v.5 #1 (1967)
A study of examining the Revised Standford-Binet


Added By: AWisniewski
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Article
Dimensions of the Intellect Unmeasured by the Stanford-Binet by G. Edward Stormer
Direct Link to this Resource

Tasks of Life Questionnaire
Description of the Tasks of Life Questionnaire

Description of the Tasks of Life Questionnaire, a brief questionnaire developed as part of a dissertation to look at the life tasks of an individual, specifically the tasks of love, work, and friendship.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Lifetasks/Tasks of Life, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Tasks of Life Questionnaire
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Sulliman Scale of Social Interest (SSSI)
A complete description of the SSSI

A complete description of the SSSI that was developed to assess social interest based on an individual's perceptions and beliefs held.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Community Feeling/Social Feeling/Social Interest
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Sulliman Scale of Social Interest
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Social Interest Scale (SIS)
A full description of the SIS

Obtained is a fuller description of the SIS used as a way to look at the social interest that an individual has attained based on specific personality traits and variables that they identify with.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Community Feeling/Social Feeling/Social Interest
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Social Interest Scale
Direct Link to this Resource

Social Interest Index, Short Form (SII-SF)
A complete description of the SII-SF

Attached is a complete description of the SII-SF, a shortened version of the SII designed to improve on the psychometric properties of the original SII. It is used as a way to look at the construct of social interest.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Community Feeling/Social Feeling/Social Interest
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Social Interest Index, Short Form
Direct Link to this Resource

Social Interest Index (SII)
A description of the SII

Attached is a link to a description of the SII, a measure used to look at an individual's level of social interest attained.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Community Feeling/Social Feeling/Social Interest
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Social Interest Index
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Manaster-Perryman Early Recollection Manifest Content Scoring Manual
A description of the MPERSM

Attached is a description of a manual used to look at early recollections elicited in an empirical fashion. The manual utilizes content themes in 7 categories to look at early recollections of an individual.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Early Recollections, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
MPERSM
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Langenfeld Inventory of Personality Priorities
A description of the LIPP

Attached is a description of the LIPP which was developed to look at an individual's personality structure based on personality priorities adopted by the individual.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Langenfeld Inventory of Personality Priorities(LIPP)
Direct Link to this Resource

BASIS-A
A description of the BASIS-A

Attached is a description of the BASIS-A that was developed to look at an individual's unique style of life as well as current psychological functioning. It also provides a link to the website where the measure can be purchased.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
BASIS-A
Direct Link to this Resource

Adlerian Social Interest Scale-Romantic Relationships
A description of the ASIS-RR

Attached is a description of the ASIS-RR that looks at the level of social interest among an individual within the life task of love.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Love Task (Love/Couples/Marriage), Adlerian Assessment Measures, Gemeinschaftsgefühl: Community Feeling/Social Feeling/Social Interest
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Adlerian Social Interest Scale-Romantic Relationships (ASIS-RR)
Direct Link to this Resource

Adlerian Parenting Education Knowledge Measure
A description of the Adlerian Parenting Education Knowledge measure

Attached is a detailed description of the Adlerian Parenting Education Knowledge measure that was developed as part of a dissertation related to parents' perceptions of Adlerian parenting skills associated with the STEP program.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Parenting/Parent Training, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Adlerian Parenting Education Knowledge Measure
Direct Link to this Resource

Adlerian Life Tasks Inventory
Description of the Adlerian Life Tasks Inventory

Obtained is a detailed description of the Adlerian Life Tasks Inventory used to assess for an individual's life tasks.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Lifetasks/Tasks of Life, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Adlerian Life Tasks Inventory (ALTI)
Direct Link to this Resource

The Kern Lifestyle Scale

Attached you will find a description of the Kern Lifestyle Scale.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Kern Lifestyle Scale
Direct Link to this Resource

Early Recollections Rating Scale

Obtained is a description of the Early Recollections Rating Scale (ERRS) adapted from the Altman Early Recollection Questionnaire.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Early Recollections, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Early Recollections Rating Scale (ERRS)
Direct Link to this Resource

White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory
A description of the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory

Attached is a description of the White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory, a measure developed to assess one's position within the family psychologically based on birth order.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Psychological Birth-Order Position/Birth-Order Vantage, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
White-Campbell Psychological Birth Order Inventory
Direct Link to this Resource

Comparative Feeling of Inferiority Index
A description of the Comparative Feeling of Inferiority Index

A description of the Comparative Feeling of Inferiority Index based on the psychological construct of inferiority feelings.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Inferiority Feelings, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Comparative Feeling of Inferiority Index (CFII)
Direct Link to this Resource

Five Factor Wellness Inventory
A description of the Five Factor Wellness Inventory

A description of the Five Factor Wellness Inventory, an inventory made based on the Individual Psychology counseling model, Indivisible Self Model of Wellness.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Five Factor Wellness Inventory (5F-Wel)
Direct Link to this Resource

Lifestyle Personality Inventory
A description of the LSPI

A description of the LSPI that was later adapted and made into the BASIS-A for assessing one's style of life.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Life-Style Assessment/Life-Style Diagnosis, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Lifestyle Personality Inventory (LSPI)
Direct Link to this Resource

Positive Discipline Parenting Scale
A description of the Positive Discipline Parenting Scale

The Positive Discipline Parenting Scale is a scale that was developed to be used for positive discipline parenting programs. A description of the scale is attached.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures, Positive Discipline for Parents
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Positive Discipline Parenting Scale
Direct Link to this Resource

Organizational Lifestyle Analysis Tool
A description of the Organizational Lifestyle Analysis Tool

The Organizational Lifestyle Analysis Tool was designed to be used within organizations and businesses. A description of the measure is available in the attached file.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Organizational Lifestyle Analysis Tool (OLSA)
Direct Link to this Resource

Marriage Assessment Instrument
A description of the Marriage Assessment Instrument

An instrument designed to be used in marriage counseling based on a lifestyle approach to therapy. The document attached contains a detailed description of the instrument.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Life-Style Assessment/Life-Style Diagnosis, Couples Therapy, Life-Style, Lifestyle, Style of Living, Style of Life, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Marriage Assessment Instrument
Direct Link to this Resource

Movement Diagnosis Tests and the Inherent Laws Governingc Their Use in Treatment: An Aid in Detecting the Lifestyle by Liljan Espenak, Individual Psychologist v.7 #1 (1970)
How to use Psychomotor Therapy with mental ill populations to understand the lifestyle


Added By: AWisniewski
Areas of Focus: Life-Style, Lifestyle, Style of Living, Style of Life, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Article
Movement Diagnosis Test
Direct Link to this Resource

Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory
A description of the Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory

The Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory is a measure developed to look at self-esteem based on Adler's three primary life tasks. A description of the the measure is attached.


Added By: Francis Sesso-Osburn
Areas of Focus: Lifetasks/Tasks of Life, Adlerian Assessment Measures
Resource Type: Document (Word/PDF)
Life Tasks Self-Esteem Inventory
Direct Link to this Resource
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