Anjali has created a new measure of social anxiety. She gives a test group of college students her measure, along with several other measures of social anxiety. In her results she sees that her measure does not correlate with the other established measures of social anxiety.With what type of validity may Anjali’s measure have a problem?
Question
Anjali has created a new measure of social anxiety. She gives a test group of college students her measure, along with several other measures of social anxiety. In her results she sees that her measure does not correlate with the other established measures of social anxiety.With what type of validity may Anjali’s measure have a problem?
Solution
Anjali's measure may have a problem with convergent validity. Convergent validity refers to the degree to which a measure is correlated with other measures that it is theoretically predicted to correlate with. In this case, Anjali's measure of social anxiety should theoretically correlate with other established measures of social anxiety. If it does not, this suggests that her measure may not be accurately capturing the construct of social anxiety, indicating a problem with convergent validity.
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