The validity of a personality inventory refers to
a. the ability of the inventory to separate those with good personalities from those with bad personalities.
b. the level to which the inventory is able to label people as suffering from a psychiatric disease.
c. the degree to which the scores for each trait correlate with the corresponding aspect of the person's actual behaviors.
d. the degree to which the scores produced by one inventory agree with the scores produced on another inventory.
Answer: C
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