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Discriminant Validity

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    The entries on convergent and discriminant validity both address aspects of construct validity. Thus, their contents overlap.

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  1. Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Melanie Baumgarten

  2. Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

    Eunike Wetzel

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Baumgarten, M., Wetzel, E. (2017). Discriminant Validity. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1298-1

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