Jackson appears to have social phobia.This diagnosis was made by looking at his scores on a particular measure of social fear.Scores like his in the past have been shown to be related to social phobia,as well as correlated with a variety of measures of social and occupational disability associated with social phobia.The measure Jackson took would be said to have

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The measure Jackson took has high construct validity because it accurately measures the construct of social phobia that it is intended to measure, as demonstrated by its correlation with measures of social and occupational disability associated with social phobia. Content validity refers to how well the measure assesses all aspects of the construct, criterion validity refers to how well the measure predicts an external criterion, and statistical validity refers to the degree to which a measure is reliable and free from measurement error. These types of validity are not being assessed in this scenario.

Jackson Appears to Have Social Phobia