Career Decision Scale.
CDS
- What it measures
- Career indecision and its antecedents: a 2-item Certainty scale and a 16-item Indecision scale (capturing reasons for being undecided, e.g. lack of information, multiple interests, external barriers). A diagnostic of career-decision status.
- Length and format
- 19 (2 certainty + 16 indecision + 1 open-ended); often described as an 18-item scored set. 4-pt 'like me' ratings; plus one open-ended item (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Korean, Chinese and other translations; used internationally in career research
- 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
- Osipow, S.H., Carney, C.G., Winer, J.L., Yanico, B., & Koschier, M. (1976). The Career Decision Scale. PAR. https://www.parinc.com/products/CDS
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