A clinical psychologist has developed a new self-report questionnaire designed to measure the severity of generalized anxiety. To evaluate its validity, they administer both this new questionnaire and a well-established, highly validated diagnostic scale to a sample of n=85n = 85n=85 participants on the same day. They then calculate the correlation coefficient between the two sets of scores to see if they closely align.
Which type of validity is directly assessed by this procedure?
Face validity
Concurrent validity
Predictive validity
Temporal validity
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