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Discriminant Validity: Disentangling Health and Emotional Constructs from Language-Based Assessments

2026-05-31

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<p>Language-based assessments of health have demonstrated validity in terms of convergence with self-report questionnaire scores, but recent work has shown they lack an important psychometric property: discriminant validity, the ability of the measure to distinguish the target construct from a related one. For example, a language-based general mental health assessment may accurately assess the degree of mental hea...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zfpk8_v1

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