{"id":7579,"date":"2019-05-22T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/construct\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:58:24","slug":"construct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/construct\/","title":{"rendered":"Construct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships between a number of objects or events and thus not much different from a concept. &nbsp;However, a hypothetical construct is where a process is not directly observable or objectively measurable, but is assumed to exist because it gives rise to measurable phenomena. &nbsp;In the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Pearson.html\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Pearson.html&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl Pearson<\/a> (1857-1936) suggested it as a substitute for concept.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"composite_-or_sum-_scale\">Composite (or sum) scale<\/a>, <a href=\"concept\">Concept<\/a>, <a href=\"construct_equivalence\">Construct equivalence<\/a>, <a href=\"construct_validity\">Construct validity<\/a>, Convergent validity<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relationships between a number of objects or events and thus not much different from a concept. &nbsp;However, a hypothetical construct is where a process is not directly observable or objectively measurable, but is assumed to exist because it gives rise to measurable phenomena. &nbsp;In the past, Karl Pearson (1857-1936) suggested it as a substitute for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/construct\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Construct&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}