Initial motives and organizational context enabling female mentors' engagement in formal mentoring – A qualitative study from the mentors' perspective

Larsson, Madelene; Pettersson, Cecilia; Eriksson, Charli; Skoog, Therése

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.10.026

Cited by 17 publications

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“…I posit that with their focus on itemizing and testing attributes, dispositions or selfperceptions they were unable to understand biographical and social aspects within the larger picture of (future) mentors' meaning-making, social interactions and social embedding. This is also true for some studies on youth mentoring which reported that they employed qualitative methods, but did so with a largely quantitative mindset [5,6] .…”

Section: Research Gaps On Mentors In Youth Mentoring Studiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…However, as Keller and Blakeslee conclude, "youth mentoring research rarely refers to the social network characteristic of mentors and mentees" [21] . With a few exceptions [4,19] , studies using qualitative methods have adopted a very narrow research perspective on the mentors' side [5,6] . I venture to say that many do not reflect the spirit of in-depth qualitative inquiry.…”

Section: Connections Beyond the Mentor-mentee Dyad In Youth Mentoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This, in turn, requires a thorough engagement with qualitative inquiry for the production of meaningful knowledge. In contrast to this premise, almost all existing studies filtered out and sorted contrived data into different categories of mentors' "motives," "motivations" [22] "needs" [6] or "role conceptions" [5] .…”

Section: Connections Beyond the Mentor-mentee Dyad In Youth Mentoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Firstly, mentoring research, including that on youth mentoring programs, has increasingly reflected the claim that investigations on the overall phenomenon cannot be limited to the concept of a self-contained mentor-mentee dyad. Secondly, it is obvious that in recent years, research on the mentors' side has increased [2,3] , including that using qualitative approaches [4][5][6][7][8][9] . Both developments together suggest that we should already have rich answers to two related questions: How do mentors' biographies and current social embeddedness connect to the construction of mentor-ing and possible achievements?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Turning into a “Godparent”: How adult volunteers negotiate their personal life to become a mentor for “Unaccompanied Refugee Minors”

Raithelhuber

2019

Soc Work Soc Welf

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This article looks into how volunteers deal with their biographies and social embeddedness to make sense of their engagement in mentoring before they are matched. It draws on a qualitative investigation on a community-based pilot youth mentoring program for "unaccompanied refugee minors" in Austria. This article reveals how already trained, local adults actively relate to "family," "migration" and "previous activities" in their meaning-making. It shows how they negotiate their personal life and existing relationships in the process of turning into a future "godparent." The discussion of findings against the state of the art leads the way to two heuristic claims: firstly, the study provides grounded arguments for an extension of the conventional mentoring concept on the side of the mentor. Secondly, for a more relational and processual approach towards the mentors' side, both biographical and social network dimensions need to be integrated in methods and designs of youth mentoring research.

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Section: Research Gaps On Mentors In Youth Mentoring Studiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Connections Beyond the Mentor-mentee Dyad In Youth Mentoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Connections Beyond the Mentor-mentee Dyad In Youth Mentoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Turning into a “Godparent”: How adult volunteers negotiate their personal life to become a mentor for “Unaccompanied Refugee Minors”

Raithelhuber

2019

Soc Work Soc Welf

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“…Since mentors themselves are part of the mentee's actiotope, the regulatory function of homeostasis also affects the mentor, too. For example, it is often not easy for mentors to maintain their own commitments in a balanced way 84 …”

Section: Applying Systemic Concepts To the Field Of Mentoringmentioning

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Spaces of possibilities: a theoretical analysis of mentoring from a regulatory perspective

Ziegler

Gryc

Hopp

et al. 2020

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

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A review of the literature on the effectiveness of mentoring reveals a paradox: on the one hand, there is evidence that mentoring can be highly effective. On the other hand, meta-analyses usually only show small to moderate effect sizes, and sometimes even negative effects. To better understand this mentoring paradox, we discuss three fundamental problems in mentoring research. We propose working definitions and theoretical premises to overcome these problems. We apply various systemic concepts to the field of mentoring that might help to resolve the mentoring paradox. We introduce mentees' actiotopes and their interaction with other systems as the unit of analysis, and the regulations for which mentors are responsible for in the context of mentoring as the categories of analysis. To systemize and elaborate on the regulatory dimensions of mentoring, we introduce the nonagonal framework of regulation in mentoring (NFR-M). To facilitate the analysis of ongoing changes caused by mentoring and therefore a dynamic understanding of mentoring, we introduce the concept of spaces of possibilities in mentoring (M-spaces). Finally, we introduce the concepts of the Athena Mentor to explain why mentors can differ so dramatically in the effectiveness of the regulations they are responsible for in the context of mentoring. We conclude by describing how mentoring comparisons based on the NFR-M, mentors' regulatory insight, regulatory power, and M-spaces can help to resolve the mentoring paradox.

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Addressing multi-dimensional child poverty: The experiences of caregivers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Vaaltein

Schiller

2017

Children and Youth Services Review

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Initial motives and organizational context enabling female mentors' engagement in formal mentoring – A qualitative study from the mentors' perspective

Cited by 17 publications

References 27 publications

Turning into a “Godparent”: How adult volunteers negotiate their personal life to become a mentor for “Unaccompanied Refugee Minors”

Turning into a “Godparent”: How adult volunteers negotiate their personal life to become a mentor for “Unaccompanied Refugee Minors”

Spaces of possibilities: a theoretical analysis of mentoring from a regulatory perspective

Addressing multi-dimensional child poverty: The experiences of caregivers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

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