In everyday language, the term validity is typically used to describe something as being trustworthy or legit. It's meaning in psychology suggests something similar—it's all about whether we can trust ...

Jeffrey M. Cucina, Nicholas L. Vasilopoulos, Chihwei Su, Henry H. Busciglio, Irina Cozma, Arwen H. DeCostanza, Nicholas R. Martin, Megan N. Shaw https://www.jstor.org ...

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 ...

This project investigates the criterion and structural validity of the recent published abbreviated version of the Conformity to Masculine Norms Inventory (Mahalik et al., 2003, Levant et al., 2020).

Nursing homes (NHs) are required to provide person-centered care, efforts often folded into broader culture change initiatives. Despite the known benefits of culture change, it is difficult to measure ...

Introduction Mentalising, the capacity to understand behaviour via underlying mental states, is a key construct in psychopathology. While self-report instruments are widely used to assess mentalising, ...

This study examines the criterion-related validity of the Differential Aptitude Tests (DAT) (Verbal Reasoning and Numerical Ability), using as criterion variables performance on objective tests of ...