The Vocational Identity Status Assessment (VISA) measures vocational identity development in adolescents and emerging adults. Although the initial six-factor structure has been confirmed, there have not yet been studies assessing other plausible factor structures. Additionally, the VISA has not previously been examined in some major types of institutions of higher education in the United States. The current study assessed five potential factor structures for the VISA in three college student samples: 857 from a large public university, 196 from a small, private, minority-majority liberal arts college, and 320 from a community college. The six-factor structure was the best-fitting model of the ones examined and showed evidence of multigroup invariance up to the strict level. There were notable latent mean differences across samples, as well as frequency differences for vocational identity statuses. These findings have implications for the appropriate modeling of the VISA and its use within diverse college student samples.

职业身份状况评估（VISA）衡量青少年和新兴成年人的职业身份发展。尽管已经确认了最初的六因素结构，但尚未进行评估其他可能因素结构的研究。另外，VISA以前尚未在美国的某些主要类型的高等教育机构中进行过检查。当前的研究在三个大学生样本中评估了VISA的五个潜在因素结构：一所大型公立大学为857，一所小型，私立，少数族裔多数的文理学院为196，以及一所社区大学为320。六因素结构是所考察模型的最佳拟合模型，并显示了严格到严格水平的多组不变性的证据。样本之间存在显着的潜在均值差异，以及职业身份状况的频率差异。这些发现对VISA的适当建模及其在不同大学生样本中的使用具有影响。