Validating Psychological Constructs: Historical, Philosophical, and Practical Dimensions

✍ Scribed by Kathleen Slaney (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 310
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book critically examines the historical and philosophical foundations of construct validity theory (CVT), and how these have and continue to inform and constrain the conceptualization of validity and its application in research. CVT has had an immense impact on how researchers in the behavioural sciences conceptualize and approach their subject matter. Yet, there is equivocation regarding the foundations of the CVT framework as well as ambiguities concerning the nature of the “constructs” that are its raison d’etre. The book is organized in terms of three major parts that speak, respectively, to the historical, philosophical, and pragmatic dimensions of CVT. The primary objective is to provide researchers and students with a critical lens through which a deeper understanding may be gained of both the utility and limitations of CVT and the validation practices to which it has given rise.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-25
Front Matter....Pages 27-27
Historical Precursors and Early Testing Theory....Pages 29-57
The Birth of Construct Validity Theory....Pages 59-81
Construct Validity: Developments and Debates....Pages 83-109
Recent Accounts of (Construct) Validity....Pages 111-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
The Philosophical Backdrop of Construct Validity....Pages 143-172
Philosophical Sketches of Construct Validity Theory....Pages 173-200
Some Conceptual Housecleaning....Pages 201-234
Front Matter....Pages 235-235
Construct Validation: View from the “Trenches”....Pages 237-269
Revisiting Possibilities for Construct Validity Theory....Pages 271-299
Back Matter....Pages 301-308

✦ Subjects

Experimental Psychology;Psychological Methods/Evaluation;Popular Science in Psychology;History of Psychology;Psychology Research;Psychometrics

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