A Group of Researchers Developing an Instrument to Measure Hope

question 1

Multiple Choice

A group of researchers developing an instrument to measure hope performed a test-retest on the instrument with an interval of 5 days.This testing resulted in a correlation coefficient of 0.38.How should the nurse researcher interpret this finding?

• A) Instrument is stable; high reliability
• B) Instrument is stable; low reliability
• C) Instrument is unstable; high reliability
• D) Instrument is unstable; low reliability

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