ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on few marked differences in the social and emotional behaviour of children of different ages. The most striking differences observed during the preliminary experiment, and indeed at any time, were individual rather than age differences in behaviour both social and emotional. The social behaviour could be divided into two groups according to the situation in which it occurred. First, there was behaviour with regard to other children, and secondly, there was behaviour with regard to adults. The emotional behaviour seemed to fall roughly into five groups— namely: tears, fear, anger, feelings, and general expression. A comparison of the average scores on the complete scale with intelligence as indicated by tests gave some interesting results. Continued observation of the social and emotional behaviour of the children brought to notice a number of different behaviour items which had not been included in the scale.
