This paper presents a simple procedure for estab lishing convergent and discriminant validity. The method uses ordinary least-squares regression (OLS) with the correlations between measures as the depen dent variable. Illustrations indicate that the method provides reasonable answers. Index terms: conver gent validity, discriminant validity, multiple regres sion.
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