Dr. Timms developed a measure of health anxiety. Dr. Timms's initial evaluation of the health anxiety scale revealed that the scale was significantly and positively correlated with other scales of similar variables and was uncorrelated with scales measuring theoretically incompatible variables. Dr. Timms's health anxiety scale appears to have a:
A) low degree of discriminant validity.
B) high degree of convergent validity.
C) low degree of construct validity.
D) low degree of content validity.

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The scale's significant positive correlation with similar variables indicates high convergent validity, and its lack of correlation with incompatible variables suggests good discriminant validity, both of which are aspects of construct validity.

Dr Timms Developed a Measure of Health Anxiety