Quantifying construct validity: Two simple measures.
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Quantifying construct validity: two simple measures.
Construct validity is one of the most central concepts in psychology. Researchers generally establish the construct validity of a measure by correlating it with a number of other measures and arguing from the pattern of correlations that the measure is associated with these variables in theoretically predictable ways. This article presents 2 simple metrics for quantifying construct validity tha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1939-1315,0022-3514
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.3.608