Abstract
The construct validity of the Career Resilience Questionnaire (Fourie & Van Vuuren, 1998) was investigated by
means of an oblique multiple groups factor analysis. The highest factor structure coefficients of several of the items did not coincide with the respective factors that the items were postulated to measure. In addition, the correlations among the factors cast doubt on the independence of some of the constructs. The conclusion is drawn that a measure of career resilience should be based on an explicit theoretical measurement model rather than on an empirically
derived measurement model. It is further recommended that the test items should have high face validity and content-saturation.