Career Thoughts Inventory.
CTI
- What it measures
- Dysfunctional career thinking that impedes career problem-solving and decision-making, per Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) theory: a Total score plus three construct scales - Decision-Making Confusion, Commitment Anxiety, and External Conflict.
- Length and format
- 48 items. 4-pt Likert (Strongly Disagree -> Strongly Agree); higher = more dysfunctional thinking (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Several languages (e.g. validated international versions); used cross-nationally
- 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
- Sampson, J.P., Peterson, G.W., Lenz, J.G., Reardon, R.C., & Saunders, D.E. (1996). Career Thoughts Inventory. PAR. https://www.parinc.com/products/CTI
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