Aconstructis a theoretical concept, theme, or idea based on empirical observations. It’s avariablethat’s usually not directly measurable. Example: Constructs Psychologists develop and research constructs to understand individual and group differences. Some common constructs include: Self-esteem Logical ...
It refers to whether the operational definition of a variable actually reflect the true theoretical meaning of a concept. The simple way of thinking about it is as a test of generalization, like external validity, but it assesses whether the variable that you are testing for is addressed by ...
This question addresses the internal validity of the research and concerns whether the conditions for establishing causal priority of the causal variable over the effect variable have been established and whether the design of the study renders any rival explanations of the observed e...
This post has been revised on March 12, 2021 to make it consistent with the published version (https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621991860) of my response to commentaries by Vianello and Bar-Anan and Kurdi, Ratliff, and Cunningham in response to my target article about the lack of construct val...
The "hypothetical construct" has been an important concept in philosophy of science for the past half century. References to the concept date as far back as 1943 (Loomba, 1943). Inconsistencies in the use of the term and the related 'intervening variable' concept prompted MacCorquodale and Mee...
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Such minimal constructions consist only of a fixed part, also known as an “anchor”, with no variable parts, also known as “slots”. The Russian word только‘only’ is an example of a minimal construction consisting of the form of this word and its meaning. At the extreme of ...
2d). According to the existing literature, all these facets are central to the concept of eustress. The importance of eustress states relative to eustress traits CHE’s lowest-level structure establishes specific features that are associated with both traits and states of eustress in challenging ...
Concept of a “Construct” An established solution to the black box problem has been the concept of a construct, which was first proposed in detail by Cronbach and Meehl (1955). It was called a construct because a concept was constructed to represent an area of psychological study that cannot...
And, I don’t see construct validity as limited only to measurement. As I’ve already implied, I think it is as much a part of the independent variable – the program or treatment – as it is the dependent variable. So, I’ll try to make some sense of the various measurement ...