When Danette Hann, Kristen Winter, and Paul Jacobsen (1999) compared subject scores on the CES-D to a number of indicators that they felt from previous research and theory should be related to depression: fatigue, anxiety, and global mental health, they were hoping to establish which of the following?

a. Face validity
b. Content validity
c. Criterion validity
d. Predictive validity
e. Construct validity


e. Construct validity

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