Unfortunately, many children are opting for them latter as opposed to staying in school. Child abandonment and the increasing number ofm street children is becoming one of the biggest growing problems in Brazil with an estimated 45 million in a state of semi-abandonment. This is a real world crisis. Rating the lonely behavior of child is one method. Here, you have to operationally define the group participation at first.
Second step is to determine the behavior domain that shows group participation.
This behavior domain could be derived from the operational definition. For more in-depth understanding, it is important to define operationally each main domain and to determine specific behavior for corresponding behavior domain. Next you have to select some responses and to assign some numerical value to each response. The average value corresponding to each domain would reflect pattern of loneliness in your child. Lastly, average all the numerical values corresponding to the responses.