Toward a “.70” for Content Validity: Quantifying Standards for Definitional Correspondence

Several reviews have been critical of the content validity of scales used in applied psychology. Hinkin and Tracey’s (1999) technique–where naive raters gauge the degree to which scale items correspond to construct definitions–offers one quantitative approach to assessing content validity when new scales are introduced. Unfortunately, there is no clear standard–no proverbial “.70”–for judging whether definitional correspondence is adequate or...