Work volition and career control in retail workers

The Work Volition Scale (WVS) is a brief measure of the perceived capacity to make career decisions despite constraints; however, systematic validation item responses scale still in its infancy. present article reports on research conducted investigate latent structure WVS, invariance across gender, and mean differences work volition income sample retail workers. A bifactor WVS accounted for construct-relevant multidimensionality scores due presence general specific dimensions. Tests gender revealed equivalence loadings, thresholds, uniquenesses, factor means. Support was also found plausible income, with workers earning high wages reporting greater than those low wages. Finally, evidence obtained theoretically meaningful relations dimensions control.