Oregon Vocational Interest Scales.
ORVIS
- What it measures
- Vocational interests on eight scales: Leadership, Organization, Altruism, Creativity, Analysis, Producing, Adventuring, Erudition; mappable onto the RIASEC and interest-circumplex frameworks.
- Length and format
- 92 items. 5-pt Likert ratings of activity statements (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Bulgarian adaptation published; further research adaptations - count unverified
- 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
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Pozzebon, J.A., Visser, B.A., Ashton, M.C., Lee, K., & Goldberg, L.R. (2010). Psychometric characteristics of a public-domain self-report measure of vocational interests: The Oregon Vocational Interest Scales. Journal of Personality Assessment, 92(2), 168-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223890903510431
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