What is one important issue in evaluating personality assessment instruments?

A. How many items are in the assessment instrument.
B. Whether there are reversed items in the assessment instrument.
C. How the items in the assessment instrument are phrased.
D. How the assessment instrument is scored.


Ans: C

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