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Validating a Mentoring Relationship Quality Scale: Does Match Strength Predict Match Length?

Rhodes, Jean E., Schwartz, Sarah E. O., Willis, Margaret M., Wu, Max B.·2017·Youth & Society
DOI 10.1177/0044118x14531604
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Youth mentoring relationships have significant potential for promoting positive youth development. Nonetheless, the benefits derived from such relationships depend considerably on the length and quality of the bonds that are created between mentors and youth. Although some attention has been paid to youth’s experience of relationship quality, few studies have focused on mentors’ experience of relationship quality. In the context of a national sample of mentor and youth dyads in Big Brothers Big Sisters community-based mentoring programs ( N = 5,222), the current study validated a new mentor-reported measure of relationship quality, explored associations between mentor and youth assessments of relationship quality, and investigated the capacity of early assessments of relationship quality to predict mentoring relationship duration. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

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  • Previous research on the psychometric properties of the SOR found evidence to support a two-factor structure for each informant version of the scale.

    “Previous research on the psychometric properties of the SOR found evidence to support a two‐factor structure for each informant version of the scale (Rhodes et al., 2017).”

    From Strategies for monitoring mentoring relationship quality to predict early program dropout (2022) · cites this paper as Rhodes et al., 2017

  • Given prior research on the SOR and widespread use of the SOR within BBBS, there appears to be emerging evidence for the SOR for meeting appropriateness and usability criteria.

    “Given prior research on the SOR (Rhodes et al., 2005, 2017) and widespread use of the SOR within BBBS, there appears to be emerging evidence for the SOR for meeting these first two criteria.”

    From Strategies for monitoring mentoring relationship quality to predict early program dropout (2022) · cites this paper as Rhodes et al., 2017

  • Higher scores on the SOR subscales were associated with longer mentoring relationships.

    “The authors also found evidence of the scale's predictive validity—showing that higher scores on the SOR subscales were associated with longer mentoring relationships.”

    From Strategies for monitoring mentoring relationship quality to predict early program dropout (2022) · cites this paper as Rhodes et al., 2017

  • The data BBBS collects on match characteristics and relationship strength has been shown to correlate with important outcomes (e.g., match length and positive reciprocal relationships).

    “Although the data BBBS collects on the match characteristics and relationship strength has been shown to correlate with important outcomes (e.g., match length and positive reciprocal relationships; Raposa, Ben‐Eliyahu, et al., 2019; Rhodes et al., 2017)”

    From Strategies for monitoring mentoring relationship quality to predict early program dropout (2022) · cites this paper as Rhodes et al., 2017

  • Mentors' perceptions and mentees' perceptions regarding the general quality of the relationship predicted mentoring longevity in U.S. and Canadian BBBS programs.

    “Furthermore, mentors’ perceptions [40] and mentees’ perceptions [41,42] regarding the general quality of the relationship predicted mentoring longevity in U.S. and Canadian BBBS programs.”

    From Unpacking Community-Based Youth Mentoring Relationships: An Integrative Review (2021) · cites this paper as [42]

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Authors
Rhodes, J. E., Schwartz, S. E. O., Willis, M. M., & Wu, M. B.
Affiliations
  • University of Massachusetts Boston (US)
  • Boston College (US)
Corresponding author
Rhodes, Jean E.
ORCID
Venue
Youth & Society
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2016-08-02
Volume
49
Issue
4
Pages
415-437
ISSN
  • 0044-118X (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-8499
DOI
10.1177/0044118x14531604
OpenAlex
W2118858405
Cited by
79
References
53
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 4 · 2014: 1
FWCI
4.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Youth & Society (publishedVersion)
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, scale validation, Big Brothers Big Sisters, positive youth development

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