The construction and initial validation of the Work Volition Scale

By Ryan D. Duffy, Matthew A. Diemer, J. Perry, C. Laurenzi, Carrie L. Torrey. 2012

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Family Influence on Career Decision Making (2016, background): “With that effort, the PWF was developed to explain people’s experience of work from the point of view of all individuals, not just those from a privileged background but also those with a limited capacity or the resources to make occupational choices (Blustein et al., 2008; Duffy et al., 2012b).”
Decent work in Switzerland: Context, conceptualization, and assessment (2019, methodology): “satisfied with their jobs and their lives if they feel capable of making choices in their careers (Duffy et al., 2012), regardless of the characteristics of the actual jobs they are doing.”
Examining Social Class and Work Meaning Within the Psychology of Working Framework (2014, methodology): “Drawing from numerous previous studies (e.g., Blustein et al., 2008; Duffy & Autin, 2013; Duffy et al., 2012), we hypothesized that people in higher social classes would have significantly higher work meaning than those in lower social classes (Hypothesis 1).”
The Psychology of Working in Practice: A Theory of Change for a New Era (2019, unknown): “…the propositions of PWT.) Research has begun utility of PWT (e.g., Autin, Duffy, Jacobson, Dosani, & Bott, 2018; Douglass, Velez, Conlin, Duffy, & England, 2017; Duffy et al., 2018; contextual variables, work volition, career adaptability, and well-being (e.g., Duffy et al., 2012; Zacher, 2014).”