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Happiness Measures

Characteristics

Code:
A-CA-mi-rc-v-9-a
Focus:
Affect: Cheerful Appearance (A-CA)
Time frame:
last instant (mi)
Mode:
rating by clinican (rc)
Scale Type:
verbal scale (v)
Scale Range:
9

Description

Rating of child behavior during testing session (Baley scales of infant development)

.. ' Happy'
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Rater instructions and scale labels not reported

List of Studies Using this Measure

Study Population N Mean
Standard Deviation
Whiffen & Gotlib (1989): study CA Ontario 1984 2 months aged infants, Canada, 198? N = 50
Mean
= 5.160
SD
= 1.600