Hence, examinations of the the stability of such estimates over time provides essential evidence of the validity, and in
this case predictive validity, of the interpretations and uses of such scores over time.
As was the
case with the internalizing / externalizing scales, many of these broad - band measures have successfully discriminated between different diagnostic groups (concurrent /
predictive validity) and they tend to be significantly associated with other measures purported to be measuring the same constructs (i.e., convergent
validity; range =.03 — .92; median =.42).