In a study of political preferences, Delilah assessed Democrats' and Republicans' attitudes toward the current US President (a Republican), as well as attitudes about various hypothetical governmental policies. This example reflects what type of construct validation?
A) divergent validity
B) concurrent validity
C) convergent validity
D) predictive validity

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Convergent validity is the extent to which a measure is correlated with other measures that it is theoretically predicted to be correlated with. In this example, Delilah is assessing the attitudes of Republicans and Democrats toward the current US President, which is a measure that is theoretically related to political preferences or party affiliation. Therefore, this reflects convergent validity.

In a Study of Political Preferences, Delilah Assessed Democrats' and Republicans