The Early History of the Career Decision Scale

The early history of the Career Decision Scale (CDS) is reviewed. A team of researchers devised categories of indecision as the basis of a set of cassette audiotapes and an accompanying workbook for self‐counseling. Although the self‐counseling materials have not been developed, the audiotape scripts evolved into the set of scale items that became the CDS. Three issues raised in the literature are addressed: (a) the lack of information about the instrument's early development, (b) psychometric problems posed by the items, and (c) the use of the CDS as a scale versus a type indicator.