This paper aims to highlight the influence of parents and of the type of school upon the students’ vocational
interests attempting, at the same time, to identify the role played by the future prospect and how it may influence
the projected interests of students with mild mental impairment.
Mitchekk & Hausser (2010) have shown in a study that parental stress may possibly be related to the parentchild
relationship, this relationship growing more and more distant over the years. Other studies found no
significant differences between parents with a high level of stress and parents with a low level of stress. Orli,
Schwartz, Dudgeon, Scheeber et al. (2012) have reached the conclusion that there are relevant dissimilarities
between parents with disabled children and parents with normal children in terms of depression and anxiety
related disorders, meaning that the parents of disabled children exhibit more anxiety and depression related
disorders as compared to parents of normal children.