Three, five, ten, fifteen. Eight ages, eight versions.
Twenty scenarios to see which one is still standing outside.
The free result tells you which age. The Deep Analysis takes your full scores across all eight dimensions and reads them: what the child at that age was dealing with, which set of moves they built, and where those moves still fire on their own today, when you are criticised, when something is asked of you, when a relationship moves closer, and when things go out of control.
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The phrase traces back to Jung's child archetype (1969), and was written for a general readership by Whitfield (1987) and Bradshaw (1990), which is how it became the familiar term it is today.
The mapping onto age stages here draws on Erikson's stages of development (1950).
Erikson, E. H. (1950). Childhood and society. New York: W. W. Norton.
Jung, C. G. (1969). The archetypes and the collective unconscious (2nd ed.). Collected Works, Vol. 9, Part 1. Princeton University Press.
Whitfield, C. L. (1987). Healing the child within. Health Communications.
Bradshaw, J. (1990). Homecoming: Reclaiming and championing your inner child. Bantam Books.
Limits: the items and the age mapping were written by Hour Light. They are not the original instrument from any of the works above and have not been through reliability or validity testing. The age is a metaphor for understanding your own reactions. It describes a habit of reacting, has nothing to do with actual mental age, and constitutes no form of diagnosis.