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work_2bj5bgte35e3boiajd73mgnwf4	Anna Alexandrova	Is Construct Validation Valid?	2016	12	.pdf	application/pdf	5586	405	55	We argue that the practice of construct validation in well-being research is theory avoidant, favoring a narrow focus on statistical A major project in today's social and medical sciences is measurement of happiness, life In this article we focus on construct validation of measures of self-reported In the second stage, researchers choose a measurement method (a questionnaire, a test, or a task), select the items (what Construct validation as described above conceives of measurement as part of theory development and the measure behaves as would be expected given the theory of the underlying construct" (Diener et al. As step 3 of our Implicit Logic shows, researchers base judgments of validity mainly on whether the measure in question exhibits plausible-seeming The normative validity of a measure of, say, happiness, is the extent to the very least, if there is no theory of well-being according to which the construct in question is important, that should count against a measure.	./cache/work_2bj5bgte35e3boiajd73mgnwf4.pdf	./txt/work_2bj5bgte35e3boiajd73mgnwf4.txt