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Vocational interests and career

My Vocational Situation.

MVS

What it measures
Three career constructs: Vocational Identity (clarity/stability of goals, interests and abilities - the well-validated 18-item core), plus brief Occupational Information and Barriers checklists. A quick screen of career-decision status in Holland's framework.
Length and format
26 (18 true/false Vocational Identity + 8 yes/no Occupational Information & Barriers items). true/false (Identity) and yes/no (Information, Barriers) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Multiple international adaptations of the Vocational Identity scale
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - author permission

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Reference
Holland, J.L., Daiger, D.C., & Power, P.G. (1980). My Vocational Situation. Consulting Psychologists Press. https://www.sralab.org/rehabilitation-measures/my-vocational-situation

https://www.sralab.org/rehabilitation-measures/my-vocational-situation

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