Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Trin, Content Validity, Construct Validity

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Objective personality measures the administration of a standard set of questions or statements to which the examinee responds using a xed set of options. Content validation: involves more than deciding what you want to assess, it involves methods, such like. (a) carefully de ning all aspects of the variable you are attempting to measure. (c) using judges to assess each potential items relevance to the variable of interest. (d) using psychometric analyses to evaluate each item before you include it in your measure: wiggins (1973) proposed several problems with the content validity approach to test construction. (1) can clinicians assume that every patient interpret a given item in the exactly. Factor analysis: factor analytic or internal consistency, guilford inventories. Examine the intercorrelations among the individual items from many existing personality inventories. Succeeding factor analyses will then reduce or purify" thought to re ect basic dimensions of personality: explanatory factor analytic approach.