Nomological validity
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Nomological validity is a form of construct validity
. It is the degree to which a construct behaves as it should within a system of related constructs called a nomological net
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Construct validity
In science , construct validity refers to whether a scale measures or correlates with the theorized psychological scientific construct that it purports to measure. In other words, it is the extent to which what was to be measured was actually measured...
. It is the degree to which a construct behaves as it should within a system of related constructs called a nomological net
Nomological network
Nomological network is a representation of the concepts of interest in a study, their observable manifestations, and the interrelationships among and between these...
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