Youth Mentoring Relationships and College Social and Academic Functioning: The Role of Mentoring Relationship Quality, Duration, and Type
| Autor: | William C. Kelner, L. Christian Elledge, Cara M. McClain |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Health (social science)
Adolescent Universities media_common.quotation_subject Mentors education Sense of community Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Mentoring Affect (psychology) Youth mentoring Sense of belonging Developmental psychology ComputingMilieux_GENERAL Relationship Type ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION Humans Quality (business) Duration (project management) Students Psychology Applied Psychology Retrospective Studies media_common |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Community Psychology. 68:340-357 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2770 0091-0562 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to examine how college students' retrospective reports of youth-mentoring experiences were associated with current sense of belonging and community, academic motivation, and college self-efficacy, and to determine hows these outcomes vary as a function of mentoring relationship quality, duration, and type (e.g., natural versus program-sponsored). Analyses were conducted in Mplus 8.0 on a sample of 400 college students. Our findings suggest that most college students endorse a mentoring relationship. We found that having a mentor was associated with increased college self-efficacy. Among those with a youth mentor, relationship quality was positively associated with sense of belonging and college self-efficacy while duration of the mentoring relationship and relationship type were not associated with college-related outcomes. Further analyses were conducted to assess how the associations between relationship quality and the college-related outcomes varied as a function of mentoring duration and type. Relationship quality was uniquely associated with these college-related outcomes over and above student gender, race, and first-generation status. Our findings suggest it may be important to prioritize the enhancement of mentor relationship quality as a mechanism to affect change in academic-related outcomes. |
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