Mario wants to ensure that his newly developed measure of empathy correlates with other, established scales measuring empathy. Mario would like to establish __________ for his new measuring instrument.
A) test-retest reliability
B) intercoder reliability
C) face validity
D) convergent validity

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Convergent validity is the extent to which the new measure correlates with other measures (typically established measures) that it should theoretically be related to. In this case, Mario wants to ensure that his new measure of empathy correlates with other established measures of empathy, thus establishing convergent validity. Test-retest reliability (A) refers to the consistency of scores over time, intercoder reliability (B) refers to the consistency of ratings among different coders, and face validity (C) refers to whether the measure appears to assess what it is intended to measure.

Mario Wants to Ensure That His Newly Developed Measure of Empathy