Focus groups in psychological assessment: Enhancing content validity by consulting members of the target population
Focus groups in psychological assessment: Enhancing content validity by consulting members of the target population
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DOI：
10.1037/1040-3590.16.3.231
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
King, LA
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作者：
Vogt, DS;King, DW;King, LA
对《心理评估》文章的回顾显示，许多研究人员在没有与目标人群成员协商的情况下开发了工具。在某种程度上，研究人员确实咨询了目标人群，但大多数人未能尽早提供咨询，以告知关键结构的识别和规范。此外，这种咨询通常采取一对一访谈的形式。本文作者的目的是详细说明人口协商作为内容验证的一部分的重要性，并批判性地评估协商方法焦点小组的潜力，为工具开发的多个阶段提供信息。作者认为，这种方法有望提高工具的内容效度，并最终提高研究结果的效度。
A review of articles in Psychological Assessment reveals that many researchers develop instruments without the benefit of consultation with members of the target population. To the extent that researchers do consult the target population, most fail to bring consultation in early enough to inform the identification and specification of key constructs. Moreover, this consultation typically takes the form of one-to-one interviews. The authors' goal in this article was to elaborate on the importance of population consultation as part of content validation and to critically evaluate the potential of one method of consultation, focus groups, to inform multiple stages of instrument development. The authors suggest that this method holds promise for enhancing the content validity of instruments and, ultimately, the validity of research findings.