Characteristics

Code:

A-CA-mi-tsb-v-3-ba

Focus:

Affect: Cheerful Appearance (A-CA)

Time frame:

last instant (mi)

Mode:

time sampling of happy behaviors (tsb)

Scale Type:

verbal scale (v)

Scale Range:

3

Description

Time sampling of happy behaviors

Analysis of video recordings of child reactions in 4 situations
-  Peekaboo game
   - with mother
   - with experimenter
-  Walking finger game
   - with mother
   - with experimenter

Each measured in seconds:
a: latency to smile
b: duration of smiling
or rated on 3-step scale:
c: peak intensity of smile

Computation: (a+b+c)/3