Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns Questionnaire (AVEM) Test

How the Scales are Structured
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Below is a preview of how scores are typically distributed across each scale.
Example Questions From the Test
- Does not apply to me; completely disagree
- Rather no than yes
- Partly yes, partly no
- Rather yes than no
- Completely agree
- Does not apply to me at all / strongly disagree
- Rather no than yes
- Partly yes, partly no
- Rather yes than no
- Strongly agree
- Does not apply to me at all / strongly disagree
- Rather no than yes
- Partly yes, partly no
- Rather yes than no
- Completely agree
Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns Questionnaire (AVEM) Test - Description and methodology of the test
People who want to examine how they approach and experience work, including energy, persistence, recovery, and emotional balance, may find this profile useful. The Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns Questionnaire (AVEM) Test presents a structured picture of work-related attitudes alongside personal resources such as social support and life satisfaction. Its work-related behavior profile can help readers notice patterns worth reflecting on in everyday professional decisions.
What This Assessment Explores
The questionnaire examines work investment, setbacks, achievement, emotional balance, recovery, and social resources. It is a work-related experience questionnaire, creating a profile rather than a verdict.
These dimensions are grouped by pattern:
- Work commitment shows work’s importance and achievement focus: Subjective Significance of Work (BA) 0-9; Willingness to Invest Energy (VB) 0-9; Professional Ambition (BE) 0-9; Striving for Perfection (PS) 0-9.
- Persistence and composure show responses to difficulty: Tendency to Give Up in the Face of Failure (RT) 0-9; Active Problem-Solving Strategy 0-9; Inner Calm and Emotional Balance (IR) 0-9.
- Achievement and well-being cover Sense of Professional Success (EE) 0-9 and Life Satisfaction (LZ) 0-9.
- Recovery and relationships reflect Ability to Maintain Distance (DF) 0-9 and Perceived Social Support (SU) 0-9.
These areas show work value, directed effort and ambition, responses to setbacks, and available recovery and support.
Methodology and Scientific Basis
The presented items use five ordered response options, from disagreement to agreement, with a midpoint for mixed views. The online form has no documented standardized conversion from responses to the displayed 0-9 scores or online norms. The displayed bands are this questionnaire’s result categories, not a scoring rule inferred from the answer choices.
The framework is AVEM, a published instrument described in Schaarschmidt and Fischer’s manual for examining work-related behavior and experience patterns. This AVEM assessment is conceptually consistent with that instrument, but its online wording and scoring should not be assumed to be an exact adaptation or a replacement for the manual’s administration.
AVEM research, including Voltmer and colleagues’ 2011 comparison of entrepreneurs, teachers, and physicians, shows how the framework has been used to study occupational resources and risk-related patterns. Those findings do not create norms for this online form. Interpret the bands alongside current workload, role, workplace culture, and personal circumstances. Self-report is affected by mood, memory, and the wish to present oneself favorably, so the profile is best read as a contextual snapshot rather than a fixed trait or diagnosis.
- Schaarschmidt, Uwe, and Andreas W. Fischer. AVEM-Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns: Manual. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Frankfurt am Main: Swets Test Services, 2003.
- Schaarschmidt, Uwe, and Andreas W. Fischer. AVEM: A Diagnostic Instrument for Differentiating Types of Health-Relevant Behavior and Experience in Relation to Work. Journal of Differential and Diagnostic Psychology, 18(3), 151-163, 1997.
- Voltmer, Edgar, Claudia Spahn, Uwe Schaarschmidt, and Ulf Kieschke. Work-Related Behavior and Experience Patterns of Entrepreneurs Compared with Teachers and Physicians. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 84(5), 479-490, 2011. 10.1007/s00420-011-0632-9
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