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Vocational interests and career

Career Beliefs Inventory.

CBI-Krumboltz

What it measures
Career beliefs and assumptions that can block career progress, across 25 scales grouped under five headings: my current career situation, what seems necessary for my happiness, factors that influence my decisions, changes I am willing to make, effort I am willing to initiate.
Length and format
96 items. 5-pt Likert agreement (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Greek and Spanish adaptations reported - count unverified
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Krumboltz, J.D. (1991). Manual for the Career Beliefs Inventory. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto CA.

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