John is assessing the correlation between measures of employee commitment and organizational financial performance in an attempt to validate the employee commitment scale. It is hypothesized that the correlation between these two constructs should be positive and significant, which it is. John is assessing which type of validity of the employee commitment scale?
A) convergent
B) discriminant
C) criterion
D) test-retest
E) predictive

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John is assessing criterion validity, which looks at whether a measure is correlated with a criterion that it should theoretically be associated with. In this case, the employee commitment scale should be associated with organizational financial performance as committed employees may lead to better financial performance.

John Is Assessing the Correlation Between Measures of Employee Commitment