Sjsu kin 175 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

What is construct validity? - ️️Examining construct validity ensures that measures of intangible characteristics (stress, happiness, honesty) are clean and relevant. It is examined through a systematic process of correlating your measure (x) of the characteristic of interest with similar and dissimilar measures (y's). Good construct validity is when correlation coefficients match expectations (low when correlated with dissimilar measures and high when correlated with similar measures...