Construct Validation in Social and Personality Research

By J. Flake, J. Pek, Eric Hehman. 2017

573 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Management Science and Operations Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/16bce17bc153c021c9eba7c0aea3cebfa45f4eea

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Applied Psychology

In Management Science and Operations Research

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

A Psychometric Network Perspective on the Validity and Validation of Personality Trait Questionnaires (2019, methodology): “To better understand what researchers intend to measure, we can look at how they use these measures: Researchers use them to validate the consistency of the structure of their scales (Flake et al., 2017).”
Psychological Science Needs a Standard Practice of Reporting the Reliability of Cognitive-Behavioral Measurements (2019, background): “…inferences (Rodebaugh et al., 2016), psychometric information is commonly underreported (Barry, Chaney, Piazza-Gardner, & Chavarria, 2014; Flake et al., 2017; Slaney, Tkatchouk, Gabriel, & Maraun, 2009), and this lack of reporting may hide serious validity issues (Hussey & Hughes,…”
An MTurk Crisis? Shifts in Data Quality and the Impact on Study Results (2019, background): “This is critical as optimal measurement is essential for the continued advancement of science, and poor measurement has been suggested as one cause of the replication crisis (Chmielewski et al., 2016; Flake, Pek, & Hehman, 2017).”
Two Criteria for Good Measurements in Research: Validity and Reliability (2017, methodology): “Jessica K. Flake, Jolynn Pek, and Eric Hehman indicate that the use of scales is pervasive in social and personality psychology research, and highlight the crucial role of construct validation in the conclusions derived from the use of scale scores [Flake et al., 2017].”
Measuring Realistic and Symbolic Threats of COVID-19 and Their Unique Impacts on Well-Being and Adherence to Public Health Behaviors (2020, methodology): “In Study 3, we found evidence of scalar invariance when administering the scale twice over a 1-week period (Flake et al., 2017).”
The Replication Crisis in Psychology: An Overview for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology (2019, background): “Likewise, Flake, Pek, and Hehman (2017) conducted a review suggesting that recent articles in JPSP provided scant evidence to support the construct validity of the measures the studies used, again suggesting that this neglect could contribute to poor replicability.”
The Construct Validation of the Math Anxiety Scale for Teachers (2019, methodology): “In the current study, we sought to establish the validity of the Math Anxiety Scale for Teachers for use with practicing teachers via the construct validation framework discussed by Flake et al. (2017).”
Use Omega Rather than Cronbach’s Alpha for Estimating Reliability. But… (2020, methodology): “For example, Flake, Pek, and Hehman (2017) found that when a MIMS was used in articles published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 2014, Cronbach’s α was the measure reported nearly three quarters of the time.”