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Mentor’s self-efficacy trajectories during a mentoring program for at-risk adolescents

Boat, Ashley A., Weiler, Lindsey M., Bailey, Molly, Haddock, Shelley, Henry, Kimberly·2019·The Journal of Primary Prevention
DOI 10.1007/s10935-019-00566-z
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The concept of self-efficacy is dynamic and may change over time. Mentors of youth exposed to risk factors are likely to experience shifts in the degree to which they feel confident in their ability to form a positive mentoring bond with their mentee, potentially affecting the quality of the relationship. Based on previous literature, mentors' personality traits, their perceptions of positive mentee behaviors, and youth risk may influence changes in mentor self-efficacy over time. Our study includes 238 adolescents aged 11-18 years and their mentors who were recruited for a randomized controlled trial of a mentoring-based intervention for at-risk adolescents, known as Campus Connections. We used latent class growth analysis to identify mentor subgroups with different self-efficacy trajectories. Three subgroups emerged: mentors relatively high in self-efficacy throughout the mentoring relationship, the stable group; those high in self-efficacy at the beginning of the relationship and increasingly so, the increasing group; and those moderately high in self-efficacy and decreasingly so, the decreasing group. Greater mentor conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were associated with greater likelihood of belonging to the increasing group relative to the decreasing group. Greater mentor emotionality was associated with greater likelihood of belonging to the decreasing relative to the increasing group. Mentors and mentees were also more likely to report having a positive mentoring alliance in the increasing relative to the decreasing group. We found that mentor personality traits play an important role in how mentors perceive their ability to serve as a mentor, which may have implications for mentor recruitment and training in programs designed for at-risk youth.

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  • Mentors' confidence in the mentoring relationship and self-efficacy in the mentor's role results in spending more time with the mentees, as well as closer and better relationships with them in short-term and long-term mentoring relationships with or without a precise ending point.

    “Mentors’ confidence in the mentoring relationship and self-efficacy in the mentor’s role results in spending more time with the mentees [136], as well as closer and better relationships with them in short-term and long-term mentoring relationships with or without a precise ending point [136,138,139].”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [138]

  • Higher mentor conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were associated with closer mentor-mentee alliances reported by mentors.

    “For example, higher mentor conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness were associated with closer mentor-mentee alliances reported by mentors [138].”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [138]

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Authors
Boat, A. A., Weiler, L. M., Bailey, M., Haddock, S., & Henry, K.
Affiliations
  • University of Minnesota (US)
  • Colorado State University (US)
Corresponding author
Boat, Ashley A.
ORCID
Venue
The Journal of Primary Prevention
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2019-10-04
Volume
40
Issue
6
Pages
575-589
ISSN
  • 0278-095X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-6547
DOI
10.1007/s10935-019-00566-z
OpenAlex
W2978462779
Cited by
11
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 3
FWCI
0.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
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 › Psychology › Social Psychology › Counseling Practices and Supervision
Keywords
at-risk youth, mentoring intervention, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, emotionality, youth risk factors
MeSH terms
Mentoring, Adolescent, Child, Female, Humans, Male, Personality, Surveys and Questionnaires, Program Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Vulnerable Populations

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