Jansen Has Developed a Scale to Assess Childhood Anxiety

question 27

Multiple Choice

Jansen has developed a scale to assess childhood anxiety. Critics of the scale say that some items on the scale have nothing to do with anxiety at all. Jansen could do a study establishing the ____ of the scale to address these critics.

• A) test-retest reliability
• B) interrater reliability
• C) construct reliability
• D) internal consistency

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