ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that the social development scale is not really a scale in any exact sense of the term since the items or increments are of unequal value. Composite behaviour items constitute the units of the scale could never be made of equal value. Moreover, in preliminary trials behaviour was found to vary only very generally with age, and numerous individual reactions to the same social situations were observed. Behaviour types among pre-school children could only be defined in such general terms, and there was found to be so much overlapping in the behaviour of apparent types, that it was decided to leave the items as they stand for the present. In addition to the fact that the items are of unequal value there are many other factors which render the scale of little significance from a purely quantitative point of view. Both social and emotional behaviour are reactions to particular situations and changing environmental conditions.
