The multitrait-multimethod matrix procedure was employed to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of the five subscales of the Career Maturity Inventory (CMI) Attitude Scale, Counseling Form B-1. The subjects were 97 ninth graders from a suburban high school. The Counseling Form subscales were intercorrelated with five short-answer test items developed for this study and designed to assess the five variables making up the Career Choice Attitudes factor in Crites's theoretical model of Career Maturity. Evidence was found to support the convergent and discriminant validity of the Decisiveness, Involvement, and Independence subscales. Since convergence was not achieved between the Orientation and Compromise subscales of the Counseling Form and the short-answer test items intended to assess these variables, the discriminant validity of these two subscales could not be examined.
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