CTI™
Constructive Thinking Inventory™
Purpose: Measures beliefs and thinking patterns that underlie emotional intelligence, coping ability, and physical and emotional well-being
Format: Paper and pencil, Download, E-Manual
Age range: 18 years to 80 years
Time: 15–30 minutes
DETAILS:
The CTI is a 108-item self-report inventory that assesses constructive and destructive beliefs and thinking patterns.
Features and Benefits
Based on Dr. Epstein's Cognitive-Experiential Self-Theory. According to this theory, people have two fundamental adaptive systems: an "experiential system" that automatically learns from lived experience, and a "rational/intellectual system" that operates by conscious reasoning. The CTI measures the efficacy of the experiential system; intelligence tests measure the efficacy of the rational/intellectual system.
Cannot be hand-scored. The individual's responses are entered into the downloadable software, and the program scores the protocol and automatically generates a score report with raw scores and gender-based T scores with a profile of the results.
Predicts a variety of desirable abilities/states, that are either unrelated or only very weakly related to intellectual intelligence, including work performance, social skills, and emotional and physical well-being. It has also been found that CTI scores significantly supplement intellectual intelligence in the prediction of academic performance as measured by grade point average.
Widely applicable. In clinical and counseling settings, the CTI can be used to obtain diagnostic information about beliefs and ways of thinking that can be directly applied in psychotherapy and counseling. In this respect, the CTI has been particularly useful in treatment centers for drug abuse that emphasize the development of coping skills. In business settings, the CTI can be used for personnel selection and for training and counseling at all administrative levels. In educational settings, it can assist in the selection of students for college admissions and in the counseling of high school and college students.