Mentor and protégé goal orientations as predictors of newcomer stress

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Published: May 24, 2012
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newcomer socialization, mentoring, goal orientation, stress reduction

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Julia M. Fullick
University of Central Florida
Kimberly A. Smith-Jentsch
Charyl Staci Yarbrough
Rutgers University
Shannon A. Scielzo
University of Texas at Arlington

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Although many academic organizations offer formal mentoring programs, little is known about how individual characteristics of peer mentors and their protégés interact to reduce new-student stress. First-year college students participated in a peer-mentoring program designed to reduce stress. The results of this study demonstrated that protégés who received greater psychosocial and career support showed greater stress reduction. Additionally, protégés with a higher avoid performance goal orientation showed lesser stress reduction. Mentor avoid performance goal orientation was positively associated with stress reduction for protégés high on avoid performance goal orientation, but negatively associated for those low on avoid performance goal orientation.

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Fullick, J. M., Smith-Jentsch, K. A., Yarbrough, C. S., & Scielzo, S. A. (2012). Mentor and protégé goal orientations as predictors of newcomer stress. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12(1), 59–73. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/1976
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Author Biographies

Julia M. Fullick, University of Central Florida

Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Boulevard, Orlando, FL 32816.

Charyl Staci Yarbrough, Rutgers University

The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce  Development, Rutgers University, 30 Livingston  Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.

Shannon A. Scielzo, University of Texas at Arlington

Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Arlington, 501 South Nedderman Drive, Arlington, TX 76019.

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