Assessing students’ perception of parental career- related support: development of a new scale and a new taxonomy Diego Boerchi 1 • Semira Tagliabue 2 Received: 20 June 2016 / Accepted: 22 December 2017 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The object of this study was to assess students’ perceptions of their parents’ career-related behaviours and their influence on the students’ behaviours. In study 1 (528 students), we developed the SIL Scale (support, interference and lack of engagement), a nine-item questionnaire applied to educational and job contexts. In study 2 (1204 students), we tested a person-centred approach and developed a new model called the WID Types (willing, involved and in difficulty), which identifies three clusters of students. The associations between the clusters and career choice difficulties, level of career exploration and stage of the vocational choice confirmed its validity. Re ´sume ´. Evaluation de la perception qu’ont les e ´tudiants du soutien parental concernant leur carrie `re: de ´veloppement d’une nouvelle e ´chelle et d’une taxonomie. L’objet de cette e ´tude est d’e ´valuer la perception qu’ont les e ´tudiants des comportements de leurs parents vis-a `-vis de la carrie `re et de son effet sur leurs propres comportements. Dans l’e ´tude 1 (528 e ´tudiants), nous de ´veloppons l’e ´chelle SIL (soutien, interfe ´rence, manque d’engagement), un questionnaire a ` 9 items applique ´ aux contextes de la formation et du travail. Dans l’e ´tude 2 (1’204 e ´tu- diants), nous testons une approche centre ´e sur la personne et de ´veloppons un nouveau mode `le appele ´ le WID Types (pre ˆt, implique ´ et en difficulte ´), qui identifie trois groupes d’e ´tudiants. Les liens entre ces groupes et les difficulte ´s de choix de & Diego Boerchi diego.boerchi@unicatt.it Semira Tagliabue semira.tagliabue@unicatt.it 1 Department of Psychology, Universita ` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, L.go Gemelli, 20123 Milan, MI, Italy 2 Department of Psychology, Universita ` Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Brescia, Italy 123 Int J Educ Vocat Guidance https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-017-9354-1