Psychological Capital: Convergent and discriminant validity of a reconfigured measure

Convergent and Discriminant Validity

Convergent and Discriminant Validity

Example: Convergent/discriminant Validity

Sociologist James A. Quinn states that the tasks of scientific method are related directly or indirectly to the study of similarities of various kinds of objects or events. One of the tasks of scientific method is that of classifying objects or events into categories and of describing the similar characteristics of members of each type. A second task is that of comparing variations in two or mo...

Convergent and discriminant validity of clitoral color Doppler ultrasonography as a measure of female sexual arousal.

We examined the convergent and discriminant validity of clitoral ultrasonography as a measure of female sexual arousal by assessing the following: (a) its ability to discriminate between sexual and other forms of arousal; and (b) its correlation with subjective ratings of arousal. Results from 63 healthy premenopausal women indicate that ultrasonography was not successful in differentiating sex...

"How fatigued do you currently feel?" Convergent and discriminant validity of a single-item fatigue measure.

The main aim of this study was to establish the convergent and discriminant validity of a single-item measure of daily fatigue ("How fatigued do you currently feel?") in a daily diary context. Convergent validity of our measure was examined by relating it to a validated multiple-item measure of fatigue (Profile of Mood States; McNair, Lorr, & Droppelman, 1971) and to other daily (work-home inte...