Psychologists say a measure has construct validity when it, in fact, measures the construct it is intended to measure. Construct validity is both an important notion in psychological research methods ...

Journal of Business and Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 6 (December 2019), pp. 747-767, 769-770 (23 pages) Performance narratives are qualitative text descriptions of an employee’s work performance. Despite ...

In my previous blog post, I noted that reliability and validity are two essential properties of psychological measurement. Measures of intelligence, personality, vocational interests, and so forth ...

Convergent validity examines the extent to which the outcome of interest agrees with the result of another measure that is believed to be assessing the same attribute. The cross-sectional convergent ...

Nutrient profiling models classify the healthiness of foods based on their nutritional composition and provide the science that underlies nutrition signposting schemes. The two objectives were to ...

The exponential growth of quality of life studies over the last three decades appears to be the cause of increased interest in rigorous evaluation of therapeutic interventions. General-health ...