Professor Nguyen Develops a New Measure of Depression

Multiple Choice

Professor Nguyen develops a new measure of depression. She administers the measure to two groups of people. One group consists of people with valid psychiatric diagnoses of depression; the other group consists of people who show no symptoms of depression. By comparing the mean scores of the two groups on her new measure, Professor Nguyen is assessing the ________ of her measure.

A) content validity
B) reliability
C) structural validity
D) relational validity