Construct validity: Advances in theory and methodology

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-25

  Strauss, Milton E ^a   Smith, Gregory T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construct homogeneity; Construct representation; Construct validation programs; Multitrait multimethod validation; Philosophy of science

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PHILOSOPHY; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THEORY VALIDATION;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL;

EID: 67651096191     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.032408.153639     Document Type: Review

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