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Author/ Year Title Sample Variables Measures Major Findings Hughes, C., & Thomas, T. (2006) Adapting the Career Development for research 159 Thai high school students Career Readiness CDI - Australian The results indicate that only the Career Planning scale minus one biased item was found to be equivalent across Thai and Australian cultural contexts. The Career Exploration scale was found to be an unreliable measure of career exploration of Thai Year 11 males and its structure was found to be incongruent across Thai and Australian cultural contexts Hwang, R. (1983) Applicability of the Career Development Inventory college and university form to foreign students 230 International college students Career Readiness CDI – College Form It was concluded that the CU Form was useful for studying career maturity, as well as for counseling with foreign students Patton, W., Creed, P. A., & Watson, M. (2003) Perceived work related and non-work related barriers in the career development of Australian and African adolescents 1063 secondary students from Australia and South Africa Career Maturity Career Decision Making Career Decision Making Self Efficacy CDI – Australian version CDMSE scale Results showed no support for the influence of gender, culture, socioeconomic status, grade, or work experience on levels of perceived career barriers Sadeghi, A., Baghban, I., Bahrami, F., Ahmadi, A., & P. (2011). Validation of the short form of the Career Development Inventory with an Iranian high school sample 310 Iranian High School Students Career Maturity CDI – Australian version – Form Adult Career Concerns Inventory Assessment of Career Decision Making Career Self-Efficacy Scale 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 Seifert, K. H., & Eder, F. (1985) Der fragebogen zur laufbahnentwicklung (deutschprachige adaptation of Career Development Inventory) 580 8th and 9th grade German Students Career Readiness CDI – German Version Results indicate that all scales, except IV, have internal consistencies comparable to CDI scales. Construct validity was established by significant correlations with several construct-related indices. Therefore, the transcultural validity of the CDI vocational maturity concept appears to be well established