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Validity of Beck Anxiety inventory test:
- note your professor maybe looking for your knowledge of what construct development is and if you know how to create and interpret a scale correctly.

i) This test has been established to have high validity for measuring anxiety particularly for OCD , agoraphobic, ...

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