Jackson Vocational Interest Survey
(JVIS)Mihai JIG ĂU
Institute of Educational Sciences, BucharestHistory
JVIS was created by the American clinician psychologist Douglas N. Jackson
(1929-2004). The instrument (published in 1977) is used both for facilitating the
decisions regarding the choice of education and training pathways, as well as in order to
support the more general process of career planning.
Investigating the vocational interests proves a logical step in the succession of stages and
decisions leading to the choice of a career that once practiced should reward the
individual personally and professionally satisfaction (provided the systems of aptitudes,
skills, motivations and personality traits be consistent and the opportunities seized).
From the same author: Personality Research Form (PRF), Employee Screening
Questionnaire (ESQ), Leadership Skills Profile (LSP).
Theoretical background
Jackson has an original idea with regard to the process of measuring the interests for
supporting the decision-making in education and work. Accordingly, he brings
innovations consisting in: