Vocational Interests Short Measures:

• Single-Item SETPOINT Scale (SISS; Hou, Su, & Tay, 2024)

• Three-Item SETPOINT Scale (TISS; Hou, Su, & Tay, 2024)

• Basic Interest Short Scale (BISS; Hou, Su, & Tay, 2024)

Note on Administration of the Measures: Scale names are included in this document for clarification purposes and should be removed when administering the measures.

Copyright and Permission to Use:

The included interest measures are the intellectual property of Daphne Xin Hou, Rong Su, and Louis Tay and are copyrighted by the authors. Permission to use the measures is granted automatically, for free, to all researchers and practitioners if used for noncommercial purposes (e.g., thesis or dissertation research that involves the translation and adaptation of the measures; career guidance in an educational setting). Appropriate credit should be given to the authors of the measures by referencing the publication below.

Reproduction of the measures in another work (e.g., a journal article, book chapter, magazine, or any electronic source) and commercial use of the measures are not granted without permission from the authors. Users who wish to use the measures for these purposes may contact the first author: Daphne Xin Hou (houx@usf.edu).

Reference: Hou, D. X., Su, R., & Tay, L. (2024). Measuring SETPOINT vocational interest dimensions: The development and validation of three short scales. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 149, 103959.