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Internal and External Measures to Evaluate Models of the Theory

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The purpose of this chapter is to describe external measures that were used specifically to evaluate models of relational competence theory (RCT). They were derived expressly to evaluate each specific model and not any other model. These external measures had already been validated extensively in the English-speaking research community to evaluate the predictive, concurrent, convergent, and construct validities of those internal measures that had been created and developed to evaluate the validity of each model one by one.

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  1. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30345-3917, USA

    Luciano L’Abate

  2. University of Padua, Padua, 35010, Italy

    Mario Cusinato & Walter Colesso

  3. Scientific Institute Eugenio Medea, Bosisio Parini, 23842, Italy

    Eleonora Maino

  4. Milano, 20021, Italy

    Claudia Scilletta

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L’Abate, L., Cusinato, M., Maino, E., Colesso, W., Scilletta, C. (2010). Internal and External Measures to Evaluate Models of the Theory. In: Relational Competence Theory. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5665-1_2

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