Wayne State University

The CTI is a career assessment designed to help individuals identify their misconceptions regarding careers and career planning. Since negative beliefs can hinder decisions-making, challenging these self-defeated assumptions may allow full engagement in the career development process.

The CTI helps individuals 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.

About the CTI

Individuals 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 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.