Anjali has created a new measure of social anxiety. She gives a test group of college students her measure along with several other measures of social anxiety. In her results she sees that her measure does not correlate with the other established measures of social anxiety. Anjali may have an issue with what type of validity?

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Amirah Arnold

Social Studies

15 January, 22:57

Anjali has created a new measure of social anxiety. She gives a test group of college students her measure along with several other measures of social anxiety. In her results she sees that her measure does not correlate with the other established measures of social anxiety. Anjali may have an issue with what type of validity?

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Taylor Garner · Answer 1

convergent validity

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Convergent validity vrefers to the degree to which two measures of constructs that theoretically should be related, are in fact related. Convergent validity, along with discriminant validity, is a subtype of construct validity.