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Crites' Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)
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Crites' Career Maturity Inventory
References
Who was John Orr Crites?
Crites, J. O. (1981). Career counseling: Models, Methods, and Materials.
New York: McGraw-Hill.
Crites, J., Savickas, M. (2011) Career Maturity Inventory-Form C.
Retrieve from www.vocopher.com/ms/cmic/C
John Orr Crites '50. (2008, December 17). Princeton Alumni
Weekly, 109, N/A.
- John Crites was born in 1928 Kansas City, MO
- Attended Princeton where he studied history
- Served in the military for three years
- Continued his education, receiving a PhD in Counseling and Personnel Psychology
- Worked as a professor of psychology
- Published Author
- Vocational Psychology: The Study of Vocational Behavior and Development
- Career Maturity Inventory (Instrument) (1973;1978)
- Career Counseling: Models, Methods, and Materials (1981)
Powell, D. F., & Fuzzo, D. A. (1998). Evaluating Factors Associated
WIth Career Maturity of High School Students . The Career Development Quarterly, 47, 145-158.
Zunker, V. G. (2012). Career Counseling: A Holistic Approach. Internationally: Brooks/Cole.
Career Maturity Inventory
Assumptions
Standardization: Each item is standardized based on age of the client in comparison to others of the same age
Items: The test was comprised of 150 total items (Attitude Scale=50 T/F and Competence Test=100 Multiple Choice
The originally CMI was made for children in grades 6-12
Career Maturity Inventory
CAREER COUNSELING ...
-Is more than administering test and reporting results
DEVELOPMENTAL CAREER COUNSELING
-LESS about helping the client make a career choice and MORE about assisting the client's "readiness for choice, to develop planfulness (Crites, 1981, p.124)."
-"Helping the client to understand the personal, social, and other factors which have a bearing on the making of educational and vocational decisions...(Crites, 1981, p.124)
Purpose: To assess the client's career maturity
Format: The CMI is split into 2 parts 1) Attitude Scale (involvement, independence, orientation, decisiveness, and compromise)
2)Competence Test (self-appraisal, occupational, information, goal selection, planning, and problem solving)
Key Terms
Crites' Career Maturity Inventory (CMI)
By Jovan Shumpert
Career maturity-one's stage of development as it relates to career life stage in comparison to others of the same age
-the higher the maturity level, the greater chance one has in obtaining a successful and fulfilling career choice
Developmental diagnosis of choice problem- identifying the nature or area of the client's career maturity deficiency