Characteristics

Code:

A-CA-mi-tsb-v-8-a

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:

8

Description

Time sampling of happy behaviors:

Clinical ratings on the basis of repeated observations of expressive behavior in test situation. Scored by two independent rates. Interval between tests was one week.  

"General emotional tone: unhappy - happy."
1 Child seems unhappy throughout the period.
2 Mostly unhappy, but not consistently so.
3 At times rather unhappy, but may respond happily to    
   interesting  procedures.
4 Seems calm and contented.
5 Happy: may become upset by some procedures, but recovers  
   fairly easily.
6 Appears generally in a happy state of well-being.
7 Consistently happy, radiating a gay mood, only rarely  
   disturbed by an annoying situation.
8 Radiantly happy; nothing is upsetting; animated.

Item in Bayley Infant Behavior Profile, Research Form 1959.