Article The Work Cognition Inventory: Initial Evidence of Construct Validity for the Revised Form Kim Nimon 1 and Drea Zigarmi 2 Abstract We present evidence of the construct validity of a revised version of the Work Cognition Inventory (WCI-R). With the addition of three new scales and the reforming of two from the WCI, the WCI-R contains 12 subscales to measure the cognitive factors associated with employee work passion. Across the majority of scales, the WCI-R was found to produce scores that were conceptually distinct from the preexisting measures. The WCI-R also uniquely demonstrated factor construct validity across the full set of constructs. Keywords work cognition, employee work passion, employee engagement Zigarmi, Nimon, Houson, Witt, and Diehl (2009) presented an operational definition of employee work passion that outlined four constructs (work cognition, work affect, employee well-being, and work intention) to help explain the formation of employee work passion. ‘‘They used the term employee work passion in order to differentiate the construct from the redundancy, confusion, and misinterpretation associated with employee engagement’’ (Zigarmi, Nimon, Houson, Witt, & Diehl, 2011, p. 195). In presenting their social cognitive model, Zigarmi et al. (2009) called for instrumen- tation that focused on the ‘‘descriptive cognitive statements of the conditions, policies, and pro- cedures of the work and organizational setting’’ separate from statements that call for employees to express their feelings that may be the result of those cognitions (pp. 317–318). Consequently, Nimon, Zigarmi, Houson, Witt, and Diehl (2011) developed the Work Cognition Inventory (WCI) to measure the various schema that are associated with the cognitive appraisal of the workplace (i.e., autonomy, collaboration, connectedness with colleagues, connectedness with leader, fairness, feed- back, growth, and meaningful work). Although the psychometric scale development process of 1 University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA 2 The Ken Blanchard Companies and University of San Diego, Escondido, CA, USA Corresponding Author: Kim Nimon, University of North Texas, 3940N. Elm, Room G150, Denton, TX 76207, USA. Email: kim.nimon@unt.edu Journal of Career Assessment 2015, Vol. 23(1) 117-136 ª The Author(s) 2014 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/1069072714523241 jca.sagepub.com 117 at UNIV OF SAN DIEGO on March 15, 2015 jca.sagepub.com Downloaded from