Leon Wendt

Postdoc at University of Kassel, individual differences, personality, assessment, (construct) validation.

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The full framework is in our preprint (https://t.co/9KbdS4gf5g).

Thanks for reading, sharing, and commenting!

[Leon Wendt @Leon_P_Wendt]

Construct validity is a cornerstone of psychological science.

But too often, construct validation practices fall short, leaving uncertainty about what our measures really capture.

Why is that?

We (with @stffmllr ) tackle this question in our new preprint:

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[Leon Wendt @Leon_P_Wendt]

We encourage researchers to apply our six criteria to ensure that construct validation efforts produce informative, high-quality evidence that can genuinely clarify which theoretical constructs are captured by a psychometric measure.

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Maladaptive Personality Trait Change During the First Eight Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the German General Population https://t.co/XdBY6iEVK4

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@WhitneyRingwald A crisis situation that causes significant detrimental and prolonged changes in the person's environment.

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Examining the role of personality functioning in a hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology using two years of ambulatory assessed data (N = 27,173). @AndrKerber1 et al. https://t.co/xecL28in5T

[Leon Wendt @Leon_P_Wendt]

@R__INDEX In general, I think prediction is at its best when it aims to be (practically) useful, while explanation is at its best when it aims to be insightful. Though both can be either.