Abstract A short 33-item form of the Career Development Inventory was validated
on a sample of 310 Iranian high school students. Factor analysis indicated that attitude
and cognitive subscale items loaded on their respective factors, and that internal
reliability coefficients at all levels were satisfactory to good. Support for validity was
demonstrated by associations in the expected direction for career decidedness and
career decision-making self-efficacy. This short form of the inventory shows promise
as a measure of career maturity with students from a non-Western country.