Guidelines for Judging Psychometric Properties of Imagery Questionnaires as Research Instruments: A Quantitative Proposal

To aid researchers in evaluating the construct validity of self-report imagery questionnaires in the context of their use as research instruments, standards are proposed for correlation coefficients under the headings of reliability, criterion validity, and content validity. Guidelines for deciding whether relationships are acceptable are also recommended.

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