Dr. Li is interested in creating a measurement of religiosity. According to the dictionary, religiosity is "the quality of being religious; piety; devoutness." He creates a measure comprising 10 statements. People respond to each statement using the following scale (1 = strongly disagree, 3 = neither agree nor disagree, 5 = strongly agree). Examples of the statements are below. Statement 1: "I believe in a religion." Statement 2: "Part of who I am stems from my religious beliefs." Statement 3: "I believe that religion is unnecessary." Use the scenario to answer the following questions.
A. What is face validity?
B. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the face validity of his measure. Be specific.
C. What is convergent validity?
D. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the convergent validity of his measure. Be specific.
E. What is convergent validity?
F. Give an example of how Dr. Li could establish the divergent/discriminant validity of his measure. Be specific.