Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nicholls, John G
• Pearl, Ruth A
• Licht, Barbara G
• Zeaman, David

Titel

On the validity of inferences about personality constructs: A response to Friedman and Spence and Helmreich

Ist Teil von

• Psychological bulletin, 1983-07, Vol.94 (1), p.188-189

Ort / Verlag

Washington, etc: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

1983

Quelle

PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Argues that J. T. Spence and R. L. Helmreich and H. S. Friedman incorrectly attribute to the present authors the suggestion that judgments of the face validity of scales should replace the process of construct validation. The present authors advocate inspection of scale content to see if it is possible that associations between scales reflect, to a greater or lesser degree, overlapping content. If this is possible, researchers can face a dilemma that prevents them from using their scales to test their hypotheses. (6 ref)