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Quality of provider-participant relationships and enhancement of adolescent social skills

Sale, Elizabeth, Bellamy, Nikki, Springer, J. Fred, Wang, Min Qi·2008·The Journal of Primary Prevention
DOI 10.1007/s10935-008-0138-8
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This study adds to the limited research on the potential importance of the quality of the relationship between adult prevention service providers and youth participants in enhancing social skills and strengthening prevention outcomes. Study subjects were drawn from seven prevention programs funded under a Youth Mentoring Initiative by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. These programs maintain a relationship-based service focus but use a variety of one-on-one, group, volunteer, and paid staff service formats. Study results showed that youth who perceived a higher level of trust, mutuality and empathy in their relationship with providers experienced significantly greater improvements in social skills (i.e., cooperation, self-control, assertiveness, and empathy) than program participants who perceived a lower quality relationship with adult providers. These findings underscore the importance of recruitment, training and supervisory practices that promote staff and volunteer skills in achieving high quality relationships with youth participants regardless of the specific intervention strategy. Editors' Strategic Implications: Practitioners and policymakers should review the authors' findings about the importance of individual adult skills in building protective mentoring relationships. The impact of relationship quality, rather than setting, suggests that the scope of effective prevention practice can be broadened beyond the confines of formal prevention programming to any place in which caring and skilled adults interact with youth.

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  • Mentors' rated support was related to an increase in empathy, cooperation, self-control, assertiveness, social self-efficacy, and sense of community.

    “Mentors’ rated support was also related to an increase in empathy, cooperation, self-control, assertiveness [49], social self-efficacy, and sense of community [50].”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [49]

  • Sale et al. developed a 23-item scale that evaluates a general positive feeling in the relationship and measures mentees' perceptions of the presence of trust, care, support, empathy, and shared interests, tested on a sample of mentees in a community-based mentoring program in the U.S.

    “In seeking to capture the mentoring alliance beyond the absence of disappointment and negative feelings, Sale et al. [49] developed a scale that evaluates a general positive feeling in the relationship, which was tested on a sample of mentees in a community-based mentoring program in the U.S. Again, the 23-item questionnaire measures mentees’ perceptions of the presence of trust, care, support, em”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [49]

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Authors
Sale, E., Bellamy, N., Springer, J. F., & Wang, M. Q.
Affiliations
  • EMT Associates (United States) (US)
  • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (US)
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
Corresponding author
Sale, Elizabeth
ORCID
Venue
The Journal of Primary Prevention
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2008-04-30
Volume
29
Issue
3
Pages
263-278
ISSN
  • 0278-095X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-6547
DOI
10.1007/s10935-008-0138-8
OpenAlex
W2114674810
Cited by
40
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 6
FWCI
10.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations
  • The Journal of Primary Prevention (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mentoring and Academic Development
Keywords
adolescent social skills, youth mentoring, prevention programs, trust, mutuality, empathy, staff training and supervision, volunteer mentors, substance use prevention, assertiveness, self-control, cooperation
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Child, Community Participation, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Mentors, Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care, United States, United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Cohort Studies, Substance-Related Disorders

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