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CAREER THOUGHTS INVENTORY
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Helps individuals identify, challenge, and alter
negative career
thoughts that interfere with effective career decision making.
The CTI is a self-administered and objectively scored assessment
designed
to
improve the effectiveness of career counseling and guidance for adults,
college
students, and high school students. The CTI can be used to identify
an
individual
who is likely to need counseling assistance; to identify the nature
of
an individual's
career problems; and to help an individual identify, challenge,
and
alter negative
career thoughts that interfere with effective career decision making.
Clients complete the CTI Test Booklet, responding to each of the 48
items using
a
4-point rating scale (Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree). The CTI can
be completed
in 7 to 15 minutes and hand-scored and profiled in about 5 minutes.
The
CTI yields a
CTI Total score (a single global indicator of negative thinking in
career problem solving
and decision making) as well as scores on 3 construct scales:
• Decision Making Confusion (14 items). This scale reflects an inability
to initiate
or
sustain the decision-making process as a result of disabling emotions
and/or
a lack
of understanding about the decision-making process itself.
• Commitment Anxiety (10 items). This scale reflects an inability to
make a commitment
to a specific career choice, accompanied by generalized anxiety
about
the outcome of the decision-making process that perpetuates the
indecision.
• External Conflict (5 items). This scale reflects an inability to
balance the importance of
one's own self-perceptions with the importance of input from significant
others, resulting
in a reluctance to assume responsibility for decision making.
The CTI Workbook helps clients to understand the nature of their
negative thoughts as
well as how much help they are likely to need in order to make effective
use of career
services. The Workbook is also useful in counseling interventions to
help individuals
challenge and alter specific negative thoughts.
A decision-making
checklist, included
in the Workbook, indicates useful areas for specific instruction in
career decision making.
In evaluation, the CTI provides a measure of learning outcomes
associated with various counseling and guidance interventions.
The CTI was standardized on a national sample of over 1,500 adults,
college students,
and high school students. It has been shown to be a reliable and
valid
measure of negative career thinking. The scales of the CTI are
internally consistent (mean a = .86 for construct
scales in the standardization sample)
and stable (test-retest r for the
CTI Total score = .77),
and the instrument
exhibits reasonable content, convergent, predictive,
and construct validity.
The CTI Professional Manual describes test development, reliability and
validity studies; guidelines for administration, scoring, and
interpretation; case studies, and ideas for interventions.
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