Table 2.
Evaluation of Reliability and Validity for Sexual Aggression Laboratory Paradigms
| Paradigms | Content validity | Internal validity | External validity | Construct validity
|
Criterion validity
|
Reliability | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Convergent | Discriminant | Concurrent | Predictive Predictive | |||||
| Behavioral analogues | ||||||||
| Sexual imposition | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested |
| Integrated paradigm | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested |
| Denial of access | No | Yes | Not tested | Yes | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
| Precursor assessments | ||||||||
| Sexual arousal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested |
| Sexual interest | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
| Sexual misperception | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Yes | Not tested | Yes | Not tested | Not tested |
| Hypothetical scenarios | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not tested | Yes |
| Implicit associations | Yes | Not testeda | Not testeda | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not testeda | Not testeda |
a
Although these forms of validity and reliability have been demonstrated for the general implicit associations test, they have not yet been demonstrated with regard to the version specific to sexual aggression.