“…Lektorskii (2010) describes three levels of reality in constructive realism including: ( Constructive realism assumes that observers can get "near to the truth" in measurement through direct and indirect observations (Cupchik, 2001). A person's outward, observable behaviours reflect their unobservable, constructed reality (i.e., psychological constructs) (Michie, Johnston, Francis, Hardeman, & Eccles, 2008;Maree, 2014;Streiner, Norman, & Cairney, 2015;Walsh et al, 2014). Like positivism, constructive realism supports data collection through measurement, and allocates numerical values to objective properties or constructs using a reductionist approach.…”