The construct validation approach to personality scale construction.

By L. Simms, D. Watson. 2007

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The dirty dozen: a concise measure of the dark triad. (2010, background): “Doublebarreled items should generally be avoided because respondents could hold different views about different topics within a single item (Simms & Watson, 2007).”
Initial Construction of a Maladaptive Personality Trait Model and Inventory for DSM-5 (2011, methodology): “Fifth, we worked with statistical models that do not empirically estimate the form of the underlying latent trait distribution because these models are well-established psychometric models for initial scale creation in personality research (Simms & Watson, 2007).”
Constructing Validity: New Developments in Creating Objective Measuring Instruments (2019, methodology): “Within the IRT literature, a model with parameters for item difficulty and item discrimination is used most frequently (Reise & Waller, 2009; Simms & Watson, 2007).”
Putting the "IRT" in "Dirty" : item response theory analyses of the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen - an efficient measure of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism (2013, methodology): “IRT is a family of psychometric methods for empirically evaluating items and the latent traits they measure (Morizot, Ainsworth, & Reise, 2007; Simms & Watson, 2007).”
Measure Twice, Cut down Error: A Process for Enhancing the Validity of Survey Scales (2011, background): “Keywords: survey research, research methodology, assessment, measurements, validity–reliability, scales The proliferation of new questionnaire scales across different domains of psychology has continued for decades (Clark & Watson, 1995; Comrey, 1988; Simms & Watson, 2007).”
The ‘Short Five’ (S5): Measuring Personality Traits Using Comprehensive Single Items (2012, background): “For example, Simms and Watson (2007), describing a construct validation approach to scale construction, give an example of a scale that includes both ‘I am evil’ and ‘I engage in evil activities’ as items; one of them is in fact behavioural expression of the other.”