Salience Inventory (Work Importance Study).
SI
The relative importance (salience) of five major life roles - Studying, Working, Community Service, Home and Family, and Leisure - across three components: Participation (what one does), Commitment (affective attachment), and Value Expectations (opportunity the role offers to realize one's values).
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- Length and format
- 170 (5 roles x 3 components, with multiple items per role-component cell). 4-point ratings (frequency/importance) per role within each component (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Developed multilingually within the WIS (e.g. US, Canada, Australia, Portugal, Italy, Poland, former Yugoslavia/Croatia, South Africa, Japan and others)
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- copyrighted - author permission
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- Reference
- Super, D.E., & Nevill, D.D. (1986). The Salience Inventory. Consulting Psychologists Press. Reported in Super & Sverko (Eds., 1995), Life roles, values, and careers.
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