FRAMES OF REFERENCE IN PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT.

The article discusses about the frames of references in personality assessment. The vast increase during the past half-decade in researches directed toward the validation of currently popular diagnostic devices requires that repeatedly the question be asked, What is being validated? in these researches. The report of the APA Committee on Test Standards points out that validity is not an absolute characteristic of a test and proceeds to distinguish four categories of validity, viz., predictive validity, status validity, content validity, and congruent validity, to which the Committee on Diagnostic Devices of the Division of Clinical and Abe normal Psychology, taking cognizance of some unpublished work by the present writer and others, proposed a fifth type, post-dictive validity.