A Researcher Developed an Instrument to Measure Self-Esteem and Administered

question 17

Multiple Choice

A researcher developed an instrument to measure self-esteem and administered it to a group of individuals who were intravenous substance abusers and to a group of people who were not,expecting to see significant differences in scores between the two groups.How should this method of establishing construct validity be categorized?

• A) Factor analysis
• B) Convergent validity
• C) Discriminant validity
• D) Contrasted-groups approach

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