About AdjustmentScore
AdjustmentScore is a psychological self-assessment platform built on the Multidimensional Adjustment Battery, a validated clinical instrument developed by professional psychologists to measure how well a person is adapting to the specific demands of different life domains.
The platform was created by a team that includes a practising Counselling Psychologist specialising in Marriage and Family Life. Our goal is to make validated psychological measurement accessible to anyone. Privately, affordably, and without requiring a clinical appointment to find out where you stand.
Why we built this
Most people never take a psychological assessment unless something has already gone seriously wrong. By then, the patterns that contributed to the crisis have often been building for years (in relationships, at work, through grief or major life transitions) in ways that a much earlier, simple measurement could have made visible.
AdjustmentScore exists for the space before the crisis. It is a structured, private way to take stock. To find out whether the way you are managing a particular area of your life is within a healthy range, or whether it is under a strain that merits attention before it escalates.
What "adjustment" means
In psychology, adjustment refers to the ongoing process of adapting internal states (thoughts, emotions, behaviour) to the demands of one's external situation. It is not happiness, and it is not the absence of difficulty. It is the quality of the adaptive process itself. A person can be facing enormous challenges and still be well-adjusted, because they have found workable ways to manage those challenges without deteriorating.
The assessments on this platform measure that adaptive process across twenty distinct life domains (relationships, work, family balance, grief, ageing, retirement, and more) each using a validated scale with a published population benchmark. Your score is compared against that benchmark to give you a clear, non-judgmental indication of where you stand.
The instrument
The assessments are based on the Multidimensional Adjustment Battery (MAB), a comprehensive psychological assessment tool covering twenty domains of life adjustment. The reliability scores (Cronbach's Alpha) across the battery average 0.88. Considered excellent for psychological measurement. The instrument was developed and validated by professional psychologists and is used in clinical and research settings.
AdjustmentScore makes these validated scales available as a private, self-administered digital assessment. We do not modify the scoring or the benchmarks. We report the same measures that clinicians use, in plain language that does not require a clinical background to understand.
Privacy by design
Your answers are sent to our server only to calculate your score against the published benchmark, in real time. They are never stored, never logged, and never linked to your name, email, or any account, because there isn't one. We have no database of what anyone answered or scored. The only additional thing that happens if you choose to unlock a report is a signed, verified payment session with Stripe.
See our Privacy Policy for the full technical detail.
Not a clinical service
AdjustmentScore is a measurement tool, not a clinical service. It provides scores and interpretations based on validated instruments. It does not provide therapy, clinical diagnosis, or treatment recommendations. If your score suggests significant difficulty, the appropriate next step is to speak with a qualified mental health professional (a GP, psychologist, counsellor, or therapist) who can provide the clinical assessment and support that a self-administered digital tool cannot.
Our active assessments
AdjustmentScore currently offers all 20 validated assessments drawn from the Multidimensional Adjustment Battery, each measuring a specific domain of life adjustment against a published clinical benchmark. Each assessment takes between 7 and 14 minutes and is entirely anonymous.