Psychometric characteristics of a public-domain self-report measure of vocational interests: the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales.
We investigated the psychometric properties of the Oregon Vocational Interest Scales (ORVIS), a brief public-domain alternative to commercial inventories, in a large community sample and in a college sample. In both samples, we examined the factor structure, scale intercorrelations, and personality correlates of the ORVIS, and in the community sample, we also examined the correlations of the ORVIS scales with cognitive abilities and with the scales of a longer, proprietary interest survey. In both samples, all 8 scales-Leadership, Organization, Altruism, Creativity, Analysis, Producing, Adventuring, and Erudition-showed wide variation in scores, high internal-consistency reliabilities, and a pattern of high convergent and low discriminant correlations with the scales of the proprietary interest survey. Overall, the results support the construct validity of the scales, which are recommended for use in research on vocational interests and other individual differences.
Department of Psychology, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Julie A
JA
Pozzebon
Beth A
BA
Visser
Michael C
MC
Ashton
Kibeom
K
Lee
Lewis R
LR
Goldberg
D000293:Adolescent; D000533:Altruism; D002321:Career Choice; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000592:standards; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014830:Vocational Guidance / Q000379:methods