TY - JOUR
T1 - Mentor suitability and mentoring relationship quality
T2 - lessons from the Glasgow Intergenerational Mentoring Network
AU - McArthur, Katherine
AU - Wilson, Alastair
AU - Hunter, Katie
N1 - This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: McArthur, K., Wilson, A., & Hunter, K. (2016). Mentor suitability and mentoring relationship quality: lessons from the Glasgow Intergenerational Mentoring Network. Journal of Community Psychology., which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/jcop.21884/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
PY - 2017/7/31
Y1 - 2017/7/31
N2 - The research literature on mentoring is diverse, draws mainly on studies from the US and spans youth, academic and workplace mentoring (Eby et al, 2010). School-based mentoring programmes targeted at socially disadvantaged young people vary from those employing peer mentors, older students and adults of different ages, and show modest positive impacts on outcomes such as truancy, misconduct and academic abilities (Rhodes et al., 2005). A meta-analysis of 73 US mentoring programmes (DuBois et al, 2011) suggested overall effectiveness showing positive outcomes for young people across social, emotional, academic and behavioural domains, and positioning mentoring as having equal effectiveness compared with other forms of youth intervention. Furthermore, the findings showed that young people not engaged in mentoring declined over time on similar outcomes.
AB - The research literature on mentoring is diverse, draws mainly on studies from the US and spans youth, academic and workplace mentoring (Eby et al, 2010). School-based mentoring programmes targeted at socially disadvantaged young people vary from those employing peer mentors, older students and adults of different ages, and show modest positive impacts on outcomes such as truancy, misconduct and academic abilities (Rhodes et al., 2005). A meta-analysis of 73 US mentoring programmes (DuBois et al, 2011) suggested overall effectiveness showing positive outcomes for young people across social, emotional, academic and behavioural domains, and positioning mentoring as having equal effectiveness compared with other forms of youth intervention. Furthermore, the findings showed that young people not engaged in mentoring declined over time on similar outcomes.
KW - mentoring relationships
KW - Glasgow Intergenerational Mentoring Network
KW - disadvantaged young people
KW - relational capacity
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15206629
U2 - 10.1002/jcop.21884
DO - 10.1002/jcop.21884
M3 - Article
SN - 0090-4392
VL - 45
SP - 646
EP - 657
JO - Journal of Community Psychology
JF - Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 5
ER -