An interdisciplinary meta-analysis of the potential antecedents, correlates, and consequences of protégé perceptions of mentoring.

Abstract

This meta-analysis summarized youth, academic, and workplace research on the potential antecedents (demographics, human capital, and relationship attributes), correlates (interaction frequency, relationship length, performance, motivation, and social capital), and consequences (attitudinal, behavioral, career-related, and health-related outcomes) of protégé perceptions of instrumental support, psychosocial support, and relationship quality to the mentor or to the relationship. A total of 173 meta-analytic correlations were computed based on data from 173 samples and a combined N of 40,737. Among antecedents, positive protégé perceptions were most strongly associated with greater similarity in attitudes, values, beliefs, and personality with their mentors (ρ ranged from .38 to .59). Among correlates, protégé perceptions of greater instrumental support (ρ = .35) and relationship quality (ρ = .54) were most strongly associated with social capital while protégé perceptions of greater psychosocial support were most strongly associated with interaction frequency (ρ = .25). Among consequences, protégé perceptions of greater instrumental support (ρ = .36) and relationship quality (ρ = .38) were most strongly associated with situational satisfaction while protégé perceptions of psychosocial support were most highly associated with sense of affiliation (ρ = .41). Comparisons between academic and workplace mentoring generally revealed differences in magnitude, rather than direction, of the obtained effects. The results should be interpreted in light of the methodological limitations (primarily cross-sectional designs and single-source data) and, in some instances, a small number of primary studies.

Research experiences and mentoring practices in selected east asian graduate programs: Predictors of research productivity among doctoral students in molecular biology

“…Our work adds to the body of scholarship on academic mentoring which Eby et al [5] reported as being a largely understudied area in the mentoring literature. Inspired by previous findings (e.g.…”

“…These DMP items focus on the instrumental support function of mentoring rather than the psychosocial support function [5,16]. The other set of PCs was derived from the 16 items that made up our list of DRE.…”

“…Most studies on mentoring are in the context of business and medical sciences, and in workplace and in youth socialization [5]. Mentoring studies in the context of academia is grossly understudied [5], and of those that examine mentoring at the doctoral level, very few focus on doctoral science mentoring [6]; 2. Most studies focus heavily on the benefits of mentoring and unintentionally overlook the possibility that current practices can also have negative impacts on students' productivity [5,[7][8][9][10]]; 3.…”

Alınan Mentorluk Fonksiyonları ile Psikolojik Güçlendirme Arasındaki İlişki: Güven ve Politik Yeteneğin Gücü

“…Work motivation is a psychological process influencing the allocation of personal efforts and resources related to work (Kanfer, Chen & Pritchard, 2008). Eby and her colleagues (Eby et al, 2013;Eby, Allen, Evans, Ng & DuBois, 2008) showed that mentoring can significantly increase protégé's work motivation such as hours worked, persistence, or job involvement.…”

“…Chua, Ingram & Morris, 2008;Ergeneli, Ari & Metin, 2007). Interpersonal trust can be the new avenue for mentoring research (Eby et al, 2013;Kram & Ragins, 2008), because of the relational qualities embedded in a mentoring relationship (Ragins, Cotton & Miller, 2000). However, at many of the studies relationship quality has been conceptualized in terms of relationship satisfaction or relational support (Eby et al, 2008).…”