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      An Updated Guideline for Assessing Discriminant Validity

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      Organizational Research Methods
      SAGE Publications

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          Discriminant validity was originally presented as a set of empirical criteria that can be assessed from multitrait-multimethod (MTMM) matrices. Because datasets used by applied researchers rarely lend themselves to MTMM analysis, the need to assess discriminant validity in empirical research has led to the introduction of numerous techniques, some of which have been introduced in an ad hoc manner and without rigorous methodological support. We review various definitions of and techniques for assessing discriminant validity and provide a generalized definition of discriminant validity based on the correlation between two measures after measurement error has been considered. We then review techniques that have been proposed for discriminant validity assessment, demonstrating some problems and equivalencies of these techniques that have gone unnoticed by prior research. After conducting Monte Carlo simulations that compare the techniques, we present techniques called CI CFA(sys) and [Formula: see text](sys) that applied researchers can use to assess discriminant validity.

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                Journal
                Organizational Research Methods
                Organizational Research Methods
                SAGE Publications
                1094-4281
                1552-7425
                January 2022
                November 23 2020
                January 2022
                : 25
                : 1
                : 6-14
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
                [2 ]College of Business Administration, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
                Article
                10.1177/1094428120968614
                37647046
                755630e2-5601-467c-bee5-eb430130b086
                © 2022

                https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

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