For his honors thesis, Kaj is studying the relationship between video game enjoyment and working-memory capacity. He is using an already established measure of working-memory capacity, but he creates his own video game enjoyment instrument, which consists of the following items (rated on a scale of 1 [strongly disagree] to 5 [strongly agree]): 1. I enjoy playing video games. 2. I am good at playing video games. 3. My family thinks I play video games too much. 4. I find playing video games to be a fun hobby. 5. I find myself thinking about playing video games when I am not playing. Discuss the face validity of Kaj’s measure.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: Kaj’s measure appears to have some face validity, but only for Items 1 and 4. Item 2 seems to assess proficiency rather than enjoyment, and Items 3 and 5 seem to assess obsession with video games rather than enjoyment.
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