positive qualities as rubrics

[Ellen Madono]

Hi,
Why are positive characteristics such as joyful, cheerful, smiling, content etc. rubrics. I thought that a rubric should describe a pathological state. Or at least a state that is out of balance. Are they like this when it is inappropriate? For example, they should be sad or in pain.
Best,
Ellen Madono

[Rosemary C. Hyde, Ph.D.]

Hi, Ellen, That's when I'd use this type of rubric. Such one-sided emotional states regardless of what's happening do occur, and to the extent that they're the person's way of responding to the stress of what's going on and it's to a strange or peculiar extent, it has good value as a "symptom."
Rosemary

[Ellen Madono]

Hi Rosemary,
Pollyanna for example. Thanks.
Best,
Ellen