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Vocational identity of high school students: The role of vocational identity status in career development of adolescents

This study explores validity of Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA, Porfeli, Lee, Vondracek & Weigold, 2011) in a sample of adolescents, by focusing on structural validity and on personal and contextual characteristics related to different vocational identity statuses. On a sample of 582 Croatian high-school students we have applied the Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA, Porfeli, Lee, Vondracek & Weigold, 2011), along with career adaptability and decision-making (Career Adapt-Abilities Scale, CAAS, Savickas & Porfeli, 2012a, 2012b ; Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire, CDDQ, Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996 ; Career Decision-Making Profile, CDMP, Gati, Gadassi, & Mashiah-Cohen, 2012 ; Student Career Construction Inventory, SCCI, Savickas & Porfeli, 2012c, Savickas, Porfeli, Lara Hilton, & Savickas, 2018), general career-related traits (Values Scale, Super & Šverko, 1995 ; HEXACO-60, Ashton & Lee, 2009 ; and Core Self-evaluations Scale ; Judge, Erez, Bono, & Thoresen, 2003), and contextual circumstances (Career-Related Parent Support Scale, Turner, Alliman-Brissett, Lapan, Udipi, & Ergun, 2003 ; Family functioning scale, Bloom, 1985 ; and indicators of students school satisfaction, academic achievement, parental educational level, and family socio-economic status. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the adequacy of three-dimensional hierarchical structure while reliability coefficients mainly indicated good reliability of all six identity formation dimensions. Adolescents grouped in VISA clusters expressed expected differences in personal characteristics (work values, personality and core self-evaluations), in contextual circumstances (parental support, socio-economic status, satisfaction with high school and academic achievement), and in career construction traits and competencies (career adaptability, career decision making difficulties and career decision making profile). The observed results supported the validity of VISA scale and are discussed in the realm of cultural differences in identity formation and theoretical conceptualizations of identity types.

Vocational identity, VISA, adolescents

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