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Convergent and discriminant validity of the WIST

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1983
Tested the ability of the Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking (WIST): (1) to distinguish schizophrenics from nonschizophrenics (N = 30); (2) to agree with clinically rated severity of thought disorder; and (3) to correlate with a measure of generalized cognitive deficit.
W R, Lovallo, R A, Sengel, W R, Leber, B, Shaffer, V, Pishkin   +4 more
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Pain Disability Index: Construct and discriminant validity

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 1991
The Pain Disability Index (PDI) was developed as a self-report measure of general and domain-specific, pain-related disability. This study's purpose was twofold: (1) to assess construct validity of the scale relative to other measures of pain-related disability and psychologic distress and (2) to assess the strength of the PDI, independent of pain ...
A, Jerome, R T, Gross
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Discriminant Validity of the Adult Attachment Interview

Child Development, 1996
The Adult Attachment Interview is a semi-structured interview developed to investigate adults' attachment representations. Subjects are asked to describe their parents as caregivers, explain these descriptions, describe how their parents typically responded to distress, and discuss their current relationships with their parents.
J A, Crowell, E, Waters, D, Treboux, E O, O'Connor, C, Colon-Downs, O, Feider, B, Golby, , Posada   +7 more
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Discriminant Validity of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1993
The primary purpose of this study was to assess the discriminant validity of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) relative to well-defined groups of children with other psychiatric disorders.Clinic-referred patients diagnosed as having ADHD without any other comorbid diagnosis (N = 13), were compared with patients with only anxiety disorders
J M, Halperin, J H, Newcorn, K, Matier, V, Sharma, K E, McKay, S, Schwartz   +5 more
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Strategy Application Test: Discriminate Validity Studies

Canadian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 2004
Purpose. Having a method of testing strategy application abilities provides important information for occupational performance. The goal of the present study was to investigate the discriminate validity of a strategy application test. This test measures the ability to apply and maintain a working strategy for efficient execution of tasks.
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Convergent and Discriminant Validities of Acquiescence Measures

The Journal of General Psychology, 1965
(1965). Convergent and Discriminant Validities of Acquiescence Measures. The Journal of General Psychology: Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 93-104.
R P, QUINN, E, LICHTENSTEIN
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Convergent, Discriminant, and Concurrent Validity of Nonmemory-Based Performance Validity Tests

Assessment, 2018
To supplement memory-based Performance Validity Tests (PVTs) in identifying noncredible performance, we examined the validity of the two most commonly used nonmemory-based PVTs—Dot Counting Test (DCT) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale–Fourth edition (WAIS-IV) Reliable Digit Span (RDS)—as well as two alternative WAIS-IV Digit Span (DS) subtest PVTs.
Troy A, Webber, Edan A, Critchfield, Jason R, Soble   +2 more
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Discriminant validity assessment in marketing research

International Journal of Market Research, 2018
Establishing discriminant validity has been a keystone of measurement validity in empirical marketing research for many decades. Without statistically showing that constructs have discriminant validity, contributions to marketing literature are likely to foster the proliferation of constructs that are operationally the same as other constructs already
Joseph M Matthes, A Dwayne Ball
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THE DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY OF ENTREPRENEURIAL PASSION.

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2009
We conducted two studies to develop and test a multi-dimensional measure of entrepreneurial passion.
MELISSA S. CARDON, CHRISTOPHER E. STEVENS   +1 more
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Discriminant validity of well-being measures.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1996
The convergent and discriminant validities of well-being concepts were examined using multitrait-multimethod matrix analyses (D. T. Campbell & D. W. Fiske, 1959) on 3 sets of data. In Study 1, participants completed measures of life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, self-esteem, and optimism on 2 occasions 4 weeks apart and also obtained ...
R E, Lucas, E, Diener, E, Suh
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