Analyzing the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of States and Traits: Development and Applications of Multimethod Latent State-Trait Models

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 270-280

  Courvoisier, Delphine S ^a,b   Nussbeck, Fridtjof W ^c   Eid, Michael ^c   Geiser, Christian ^c   Cole, David A ^d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

convergent validity; longitudinal analysis; LST; MTMM; SEM

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MULTIMETHOD STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 54949095827     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012812     Document Type: Article

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