Using a Resiliency Framework to Examine Natural Mentoring Relationships and the Coping Efficacy as Buffers of the Negative Impact of Stressors on Academic Outcomes in Urban, Low-Income Ethnic Minority Youth
Year: 2013
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This paper used Resiliency theory to examine natural mentoring and coping efficacy as protective factors that may buffer the negative impact of stressors on academic and psychosocial outcomes in urban, low-income, Latino youth. Research has demonstrated that natural mentoring may serve a protective role for youth who are experiencing high levels of stressors, and that coping efficacy may correlate with positive outcomes. The present study used Structural Equation Modeling to test the compensatory and protective factors models of resilience to examine the ways in which stress, coping efficacy and natural mentoring interact to predict a variety of academic outcomes for 422 urban, low income Latino youth. Results demonstrated support for viewing coping efficacy as a compensatory factor, but do not support viewing natural mentoring as a compensatory factor, or viewing coping efficacy or natural mentoring as protective factors. These results address gaps in the literature on the characteristics of natural mentoring relationships that predict positive academic outcomes, and on the role of coping efficacy in promoting positive academic outcomes.
Author: Rachel Feuer
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W138390679