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Mentor and protégé goal orientations as predictors of newcomer stress

Year: 2012

Type: article

Abstract: Although many academic organizations offer formal mentoring programs, little is known about how individual characteristics of peer mentors and their protégés interact to reduce new-student stress. First-year college students participated in a peer-mentoring program designed to reduce stress. The results of this study demonstrated that protégés who received greater psychosocial and career support showed greater stress reduction. Additionally, protégés with a higher avoid performance goal orientation showed lesser stress reduction. Mentor avoid performance goal orientation was positively associated with stress reduction for protégés high on avoid performance goal orientation, but negatively associated for those low on avoid performance goal orientation.

Source: Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University)

Authors: Julia M. Fullick, Kimberly A. Smith-Jentsch, Charyl Staci Yarbrough, Shannon A. Scielzo

Institutions: University of Central Florida, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, The University of Texas at Arlington

Language: English

Topic: Mentoring and Academic Development

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2140129640

FWCI: 5.57

Cites: 42

Cited by: 17

Related to: 10