To examine the reliability and validity of Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) among Chinese young students, and to investigate the distribution and difference of vocational identity statuses between college students and senior high school students, this study conducted item analysis, factor analysis, reliability and validity analysis, equivalence test and preliminary application on a total of 871 college students and 760 senior high school students. The revised C-VISA included 26 items was divided into six factors: in-breadth career exploration, in-depth career exploration, career commitment making, identification with career commitment, career self-doubt, and career flexibility. Confirmatory factor analysis showed the structure of the C-VISA was rational. The subscales of career self-doubt, in-breadth career exploration, in-depth career exploration, career commitment making and identification with career commitment were significantly correlated with CES-D-13 and SWLS, indicated that the C-VISA had good criterion validity. The Cronbach α coefficient of the VISA and all subscales ranged from 0.68 to 0.86, and the test-retest reliability ranged from 0.73 to 0.83. The C-VISA was configural invariant and metric invariant across age, and can divide vocational identity into six types: achievement, foreclosure, moratorium, searching moratorium, diffusion, and carefree diffusion. In conclusion, the revised C-VISA was demonstrated as a psychometrically sound scale with good reliability and validity, and can be used as an effective tool to measure the vocational identity status of college students and senior high school students.
