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A researcher is evaluating a new self-report scale designed to measure Carl Jung's concept of extroversion—specifically the degree to which an individual derives psychological energy from being outgoing and socially oriented. During the validation phase, the researcher discovers that scores on this new extroversion scale have an extremely high correlation (r=0.85r = 0.85) with a standard clinical measure of generalized anxiety, despite these being theoretically distinct constructs. In evaluating this empirical evidence, the researcher must conclude that the new scale has failed to demonstrate adequate ________ validity (a specific subtype of construct validity that ensures a measure does not correlate with theoretically unrelated constructs), because it is unable to sufficiently differentiate extroversion from a completely different psychological construct.

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