RESEARCH STUDY 5.2
Dr. Sheffield is a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating pathological gambling. Pathological gambling is defined as being unable to resist impulses to gamble. Bothered by not having a good measure that he can give to clients to determine whether they are suffering from this condition, he creates a new measure of pathological gambling. The measure has 15 questions and it takes 20 minutes to complete.
-Refer to Research Study 5.2 above to answer the following question. Dr.Sheffield gives his measure to his supervisor,who is also an expert in pathological gambling.His supervisor says that his measure appears to test all the components of pathological gambling,including feeling restless when attempting to stop gambling,jeopardizing jobs in order to keep gambling,and using gambling to escape from problems and a bad mood.Given this information,Dr.Sheffield's measure has evidence of which of the following?

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Dr. Sheffield's measure has evidence of content validity because the supervisor confirms that it covers all the components of pathological gambling. Face validity refers to the extent to which a measure appears to test what it is intended to measure, predictive validity refers to the ability of a measure to predict future outcomes, concurrent validity refers to the extent to which a measure correlates with measures of similar constructs collected at the same time, and discriminant validity refers to the extent to which a measure can distinguish between different constructs. None of these types of validity are addressed in the given information.

RESEARCH STUDY 5.2 Dr. Sheffield Is a Clinical Psychologist Who Specializes in Treating