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Promoting successful youth mentoring relationships: A preliminary screening questionnaire

Rhodes, Jean, Reddy, Ranjini, Roffman, Jennifer, Grossman, Jean B.·2005·The Journal of Primary Prevention
DOI 10.1007/s10935-005-1849-8
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Youth mentoring programs are an increasingly popular intervention, and although successful mentoring relationships can promote a range of positive developmental outcomes, relationships that fail can lead to decrements in a youth's functioning and self-esteem. The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs (N = 347 youth). This tool can be administered to adolescents who have been assigned mentors in order to assess the quality of the relationship as it is forming and to identify dyads that may need additional support before those relationships fail. Implications of such a tool for mentoring interventions and research are discussed. Editors' Strategic Implications: Reliability and validity data are presented for a measure of youth's perceptions of the quality of their mentoring relationship. This measure shows promise as a tool for research and evaluation of a wide array of mentoring programs due to its brevity, demonstrated psychometrics, and straightforward focus on the mentoring relationship.

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  • The theoretical model of youth mentoring developed by Rhodes (2005) emphasizes how mentoring interactions can provide youth with a positive, supportive role model and opportunities to develop new skills and ways of thinking that support identity development and social-emotional and cognitive growth.

    “This model emphasizes how mentoring interactions can provide youth with a positive, supportive role model and opportunities to develop new skills and ways of thinking that, in turn, support identity development as well as socialemotional and cognitive growth.”

    From Effects of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America Community-Based Mentoring Program on social-emotional, behavioral, and academic outcomes of participating youth: A randomized controlled trial (2023) · cites this paper as Rhodes (2005)

  • Rhodes et al. developed a 15-item mentoring relationship quality inventory completed by mentees, comprising four moderately to strongly interrelated scales: Not Dissatisfied, Helped to Cope, Not Unhappy, and Trust Not Broken.

    “For example, Rhodes et al. [131] developed a 15-item mentoring relationship quality inventory completed by mentees. The questionnaire is comprises four moderately to strongly interrelated scales (Not Dissatisfied, Helped to Cope, Not Unhappy, and Trust Not Broken) to tap the positive and negative aspects of the relationship.”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [131]

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Authors
Rhodes, J., Reddy, R., Roffman, J., & Grossman, J. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
  • Princeton University (US)
Corresponding author
Rhodes, Jean
ORCID
Rhodes, Jean
Venue
The Journal of Primary Prevention
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2005-03
Volume
26
Issue
2
Pages
147-167
ISSN
  • 0278-095X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-6547
DOI
10.1007/s10935-005-1849-8
OpenAlex
W1980216727
Cited by
189
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • The Journal of Primary Prevention (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
William T. Grant Foundation
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mentoring and Academic Development
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
youth mentoring, mentoring relationship quality, Big Brothers Big Sisters, screening questionnaire, measurement development, reliability and validity, adolescents' perceptions, mentoring program evaluation, relationship failure, self-esteem
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Affect, Child, Factor Analysis, Statistical, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Mass Screening, Mentors, Surveys and Questionnaires

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