On a distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables.
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...CONSTRUCT VALIDITY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS Lee J. Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl (1955)[1] First published in Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302....
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...[2] This idea was first formulated by a subcommittee (Meehl and R. C. Challman) studying how proposed recommendations would apply to projective techniques, and later modified and clarified by the entire Committee (Bordin, Challman, Conrad, Humphreys, Super, and the present writers)....
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...Space does not permit full analysis of the relation of the present paper to the MacCorquodale-Meehl distinction between hypothetical constructs and intervening variables....
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..." For the benefit of readers who may have been influenced by certain eisegeses of MacCorquodale and Meehl (40), let us here emphasize: Whether or not an interpretation of a test's properties or relations involves questions of construct validity is to be decided by examining the entire body of evidence offered, together with what is asserted about the test in the context of this evidence....
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...For the benefit of readers who may have been influenced by certain eisegeses of MacCorquodale and Meehl (40), let us here emphasize: Whether or not an interpretation of a test's properties or relations involves questions of construct validity is to be decided by examining the entire body of evidence offered, together with what is asserted about the test in the context of this evidence....
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...E-mail: pat.shrout@nyu.edu 1 One of the earliest discussions of mediation in psychology was initiated by Maccorquodale and Meehl (1948) and...
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...Statistical approaches to the analysis of mediation have been discussed extensively in the psychological literature (Baron & Kenny, 1986; Collins, Graham, & Flaherty, 1998; James & Brett, 1984; Judd & Kenny, 1981; Kenny, Kashy, & Bolger, 1998; Maccorquodale & Meehl, 1948; MacKinnon & Dwyer, 1993; Mac-Kinnon, Krull, & Lockwood, 2000; MacKinnon, Warsi, & Dwyer, 1995; Rozeboom, 1956; Sobel, 1982)....
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...Hypotheses articulating measurable processes that intervene between the independent and dependent variables have long been proposed in psychology (e.g., MacCorquodale & Meehl, 1948; Woodworth, 1928)....
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...That is, the intervening variables or hypothetical constructs that were championed as useful for theorizing about behaviors (35)—and that could mark the path between the genotype and the behavior of interest (Figure 2)—might Mendelize in a predicted manner....
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