Discuss the Concepts of Severity, Vulnerability and Response Efficacy in the Behavioral

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Essay

Discuss the concepts of severity, vulnerability and response efficacy in the behavioral response model.

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Definitions:

Convergent Validity

A measure of the extent to which two independent measures of the same concept are correlated.

Ordinal Scale

A scale of measurement in which the measurement categories form a rank order along a continuum.

Unobtrusive Measure

Research methods that do not involve direct interaction with the participants, minimizing the influence of the measurement process on the results.

Convergent Validity

The extent to which two measurements of constructs, which are expected to have a theoretical correlation, actually do exhibit a relationship.