摘要：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.
关键词：desenvolvimento de carreira; crianças e jovens adolescentes; apoio dos professores
