A clinical psychologist has developed a new 10-item questionnaire to assess the severity of generalised anxiety disorder, called the GAD-10. To establish the validity of this new scale, she administers it to a sample of 150 patients alongside the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), a well-established and widely accepted diagnostic tool. She calculates the correlation coefficient between the scores from the two measures and finds a strong positive correlation (r=+0.87r = +0.87r=+0.87).
Which type of validity is the psychologist primarily establishing?
Ecological validity
Predictive validity
Concurrent validity
Face validity
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