Psychologists say a measure has construct validity when it, in fact, measures the construct it is intended to measure. Construct validity is both an important notion in psychological research methods ...

An attempt is made to explicate the meaning of construct validity. Operational issues in the process of construct validation are investigated. A subset of "JMR" studies involving construct validation ...

Convergent validity examines the extent to which the outcome of interest agrees with the result of another measure that is believed to be assessing the same attribute. The cross-sectional convergent ...

This report describes the results of the analyses of the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) for the Netherlands. We show that the original scale has sufficient construct validity. Six of the eight ...

Nutrient profiling classifies individual food products according to their nutrient content. According to the WHO (World Health Organization), validation is a key step in the development of a nutrient ...

Background: Disease-specific Quality Of Life (QOL) measures are devised to assess the impact of a specific disease across a spectrum of important domains of life. The purpose of this study was to ...