Because low marital adjustment should lead to divorce, Professor Rogers checked his measure of marital adjustment by examining whether couples with low marital adjustment scores were more likely than couples with high marital adjustment scores to later obtain a divorce. This illustrates the use of

a. criterion-related validity.
b. face validity.
c. content validity.
d. construct validity.
e. test-retest validity.


A

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