Summary: It is frequently argued that experiments in social psychology are artificial and do not reflect the «real world.» In this context, Aronson and Carlsmith (1968) emphasize that it is not the major objective of a laboratory experiment to simulate ...
Subjective ratings and objective cognitive performance in mentally healthy individualsAbstract. Neuropsychological studies show equivocal results for the relationship between subjective and objective measures of cognitive performance. Cognitive ...
Research on questionnaire design has shown that respondents take a questionnaire’s formal aspects into account when formulating their answers to closed-ended questions (e.g., rating scales, multiple-choice questions). As similar research on open-response ...
Validity of self-reported
drug use in
heroin-assisted
treatment
in SwitzerlandObjective: This study examined the
validity of self-reports on drug-abuse
in heroin-assisted treatment.
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Methods: To determine validity, 167
patients were asked ...
One important question in trait theory is the concept of validity, that is, whether a given test actually measures what it is intended to measure. This is easy to establish when we have a criterion against which the test can be evaluated. Unfortunately, ...
Abstract. The current study examined the validity of two self-report measures of social anxiety constructed using social comparative referent points. It was hypothesized that these comparison measures would be both reliable and valid. ...
In this article, we describe the construct validation of a General Social Attitudes Scale (SAS_G), designed to measure the basic dimensions of social attitudes in both self-reports and peer-ratings. A large sample of Croatian university students (N = 452) ...