RESEARCH STUDY 5.4 Dr. Li Is Interested in Creating a Measurement of Religiosity

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RESEARCH STUDY 5.4
Dr. Li is interested in creating a measurement of religiosity. According to the dictionary, religiosity is "the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness." He creates a measure comprising 10 statements. People respond to each statement using the following scale (1 = strongly disagree, 3 = neither agree nor disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Some of the statements are below.
Statement 1: "I believe in a religion."
Statement 2: "Part of who I am stems from my religious beliefs."
Statement 3: "I believe that religion is unnecessary."
-Refer to Research Study 5.4 above to answer the following question.
Provide a suggestion for how Dr.Li could establish the predictive validity of his measure and a suggestion for how he could establish the concurrent validity of his measure.

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