CORRELATION VALIDITY COEFFICIENTS DISATTENUATED FOR SCORE RELIABILITY- A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING APPROACH/

The purpose of the current article is to offer methods for conducting hypothesis testing associated with disattenuated validity coefficients that overcome potential limitations of some previously suggested appr oaches. Through casting classical test theory's notion of reliability in the form of structural path models, such hypothesis testing may be accomplished in a fairly straightforward manner using hierarchically r elated structural equation models. Methods for hypothesis testing of s ingle disattenuated correlations, as well as for testing of independen t and dependent disattenuated correlations, are presented.