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circumplex

                                  The degree to which a test is meaningfully correlated





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                                        constructs         Personality Circumplex: Eysenck  predicted  the  t  h












                                        similar                  predicted how different personality trait scales should  correlate. Because his tests fit the predicted circumplex  fit  tests pattern, they demonstrated construct validity. If a test  continually confirms specific patterns or associations  dived from a theory, it has high construct validity.  hi







                       Construct Validity
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                                        that               Example: Eysenck’s  Because




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