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When introspective data are gathered by means of questionnaires, there are many ways in which results can become invalid. Every diagnostician is familiar with the feeling that the construct presented in a questionnaire is not clearly defined or that the test persons might interpret the items in varying ways. Existing test theories deal with “only” the syntactic aspects of questionnaire data. Too little attention is generally paid to semantic questions dealing with the way in which questionnaire scores are arrived at. Response set research also uses already existing data.
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Kastner, M. (1986). Pragmatic Validity to Be Considered for the Construction and Application of Psychological Questionnaires. In: Angleitner, A., Wiggins, J.S. (eds) Personality Assessment via Questionnaires. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70751-3_4
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