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Cross‐validation of Lewis & Michalson's system for measurement of children's emotional states
Author(s) -
Denham Susanne A.,
MitchellCopeland Jennifer
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
infant mental health journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.693
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1097-0355
pISSN - 0163-9641
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0355(199322)14:2<133::aid-imhj2280140207>3.0.co;2-v
Subject(s) - developmental psychology , psychology , cross validation , concurrent validity , emotional support , psychometrics , social psychology , statistics , mathematics , social support , internal consistency
Lewis and Michalson's (l983a) theory of emotional development, and their related measurement technique for assessing emotional states of infants and young children, need independent validation, particularly for applied usage. Twenty‐eight toddlers (mean age, 31 months) were observed in a seminaturalistic setting. Emotional displays and Lewis and Michalson (LM) scores were coded independently. Some individual cross‐contextual stability was found for LM scores, which also varied in mean level across these different contexts. Regarding concurrent validity, microanalytically coded emotional displays were related to LM scores.