Marnie tells her colleague, "I just developed a new measure for anxiety disorders." Her colleague looks over the items on Marnie's new scale, and says, "But these items don't measure anxiety, they measure mood! Your scale lacks ____ validity!"

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Content validity refers to the extent to which a measure represents all facets of a given construct. If the items measure mood instead of anxiety, the scale lacks content validity.

Marnie Tells Her Colleague, "I Just Developed a New Measure