Perceived teacher support on children and adolescent career development: Validation of a rating scale

Authors

  • Rute David Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. University of Coimbra.
  • José Tomás da Silva Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. University of Coimbra.
  • Maria Paula Paixão Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. University of Coimbra.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_59-2_5

Keywords:

career development, children and young adolescents’, teacher support

Abstract

Specialized literature has been lately emphasizing the importance of the relational context in the career development process. Being school a meaningful context to children and young adolescents, we focused on the influence of teachers, specifically in the students’ perceptions of teachers’ support to their career development process, particularly in what concerns to their interests, perceptions of competence and, educational and occupational aspirations. Given the lack of valid measures to assess this construct, this study presents data from the validation of the translation and adaptation of the Portuguese version of
the Teacher Support Scale (McWhirter, 1996). In a study with 498 participants from the 4th, 6th and 8th grades, we found differences in teacher support perceptions, based on gender,
school level (age), socioeconomic status and level of academic aspirations.

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Published

2017-04-06

How to Cite

David, R., Silva, J. T. da, & Paixão, M. P. (2017). Perceived teacher support on children and adolescent career development: Validation of a rating scale. Psychologica, 59(2), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8606_59-2_5

Issue

Vol. 59 No. 2 (2016)

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