Susan is a counselor who is going to administer a questionnaire to her client to assess for symptoms of anxiety.As Susan is reviewing which anxiety questionnaire to administer,she notices several questions on one questionnaire that assessed for hallucinations and other psychotic features,distorted thinking,and paranoia.Assuming that the questionnaire is to be measuring only anxiety symptoms,this questionnaire would be considered to have:

A) Low alternate forms reliability
B) Low inter-rater reliability
C) Low internal consistency
D) High discriminate reliability

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Whitney Ramsey · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : C, Explanation :  Low internal consistency, as the questionnaire is measuring multiple constructs (anxiety, hallucinations, distorted thinking, paranoia) instead of just anxiety symptoms.

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