Vocational Identity Status Assessment.

VISA

What it measures

Vocational identity development via three processes (each with two subscales): Career Exploration (in-breadth, in-depth), Commitment (making, identification with), and Reconsideration (self-doubt, flexibility). Resolves six identity statuses (achieved, foreclosed, moratorium, searching moratorium, diffused, undifferentiated).

Length and format

30 (6 subscales x 5 items). 5-pt Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Validated in French and Chinese (and other) versions; used internationally in identity-development research

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

open with attribution

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Reference

Porfeli, E.J., Lee, B., Vondracek, F.W., & Weigold, I.K. (2011). A multi-dimensional measure of vocational identity status. Journal of Adolescence, 34(5), 853-871.