Validating Psychological Constructs: Historical, Philosophical, and Practical Dimensions

1 Introduction.- Part I: The Historical Dimension of Construct Validity.- 2 Historical Precursors and Early Testing Theory.- 3 The Birth of Construct Validity Theory4 Construct Validity: Developments and Debates.- 5 Recent Accounts of (Construct) Validity.- Part II: The Philosophical Dimension of Construct Validity.- 6 The Philosophical Backdrop of Construct Validity.- 7 Philosophical Sketches of Construct Validity Theory.- 8 Some Conceptual Housecleaning.- Part III: The Pragmatic Dimension of Construct Validity.- 9 Construct Validation: View from the "Trenches".- 10 Revisiting Possibilities for Construct Validity Theory.


Author: Kathleen Slaney
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 07/28/2017
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781137385222

About the Author
Kathleen Slaney is Associate Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, and a co-editor of A Wittgensteinian Perspective on the Use of Conceptual Analysis in Psychology (2013) and The Wiley Handbook of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2015).