Measures of psychological constructs are validated by testing whether they relate to measures of other constructs as specified by theory. Each test of relations between measures reflects on the validity of both the measures and the theory driving the test. Construct validation concerns the simultaneous process of measure and theory validation. In this article, we review the recent history of validation efforts in clinical psychological science that has led to this perspective, and we review the following recent advances in validation theory and methodology of importance for clinical researchers. These are: the emergence of nonjustificationist philosophy of science; an increasing appreciation for theory and the need for informative tests of construct validity; valid construct representation in experimental psychopathology; the need to avoid representing multidimensional constructs with a single score; and the emergence of effective new statistical tools for the evaluation of convergent and discriminant validity.

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结构效度：理论和方法论的进步。

心理构念的测量通过测试它们是否与理论指定的其他构念的测量相关来验证。度量之间关系的每个测试都反映了度量和驱动测试的理论的有效性。结构验证涉及测量和理论验证的同时过程。在本文中，我们回顾了导致这种观点的临床心理科学验证工作的近期历史，并回顾了以下对临床研究人员重要的验证理论和方法论的最新进展。它们是：非辩护主义科学哲学的出现；对理论的日益重视和对结构效度的信息测试的需要；实验精神病理学中的有效结构表征；需要避免用单一分数表示多维结构；以及用于评估收敛效度和判别效度的有效新统计工具的出现。