The relation between nonclassroom contact with faculty and students' perceptions of instructional quality

Academic Mentoring in College: The Interactive Role of Student?s and Mentor?s Interpersonal Dispositions

“…Tinto further suggests that faculty members, who represent the institution's rules and values, are especially determinant in students' adjustment to the institution. Empirical research has supported these claims by showing that informal contacts (outside the classroom) between college students and faculty have a positive impact on students' academic performance, satisfaction with college life, retention, and educational and career goals (Andrews et al, 1987;Lamport, 1993;Terenzini and Pascarella, 1980;Theophilides and Terenzini, 1981).…”

The Role of Attachment in Faculty Mentoring

“…Studies that have examined relationships between mentoring and individual differences such as cognitive styles, personality, locus of control, learning goal orientation, and mentoring (Armstrong, Allinson, & Hayes, 2002;Ellinger, 2002;Godshalk, & Sosik, 2003;Judge & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2007;Kim & Kim, 2007;Siegel, Smith, & Mosca, 2001) definitely suggest that interpersonal interactions and relationship between the participants are critical to mentoring. Particularly, studies that identified correlations between mentor personality and functions of mentoring and outcomes of mentoring (Chang, 1981;Theophilides & Terenzini, 1981;Wilson, Woods, & Gaff, 1974) and protégé personality and functions of mentoring and outcomes of mentoring (Aryee, Lo, & Kang, 1999;Turban & Dougherty, 1994) are important in the context of this study because mentoring is a relationship or interpersonal process where personalities play a part. However, it is not clear how the individual's basic orientation towards developing relationships as defined by attachment styles plays a role in the emergence of close interpersonal relationships like mentoring.…”

“…The presence of this control system or secure base and its connections with internal working models (environmental homeostasis) are regarded as primary features of personality functioning all through life (Bowlby, 1988). Personality is related to a person's behavior in mentoring relationships in terms of open communication, extraversion, agreeableness, flexibility (Engstrom, 2004;Theophilides & Terenzini, 1981;Turban & Dougherty, 1994), accessibility and availability (Wilson, Woods, & Gaff, 1974), and empathy and respect (Chang, 1981). The obvious overarching linkage between attachment styles and personality functioning in terms of well-being, trust, sociability, endurance, anxiety, and satisfaction with social support (Bowlby, 1988;Caldwell, 1994), therefore, makes it natural that early life social experiences could play a significant role in adult mentoring relationships (Scandura & Pellegrini, 2004).…”

“…Specific personality attributes that might be influential in mentoring relationship were open communication, friendliness, and flexibility (Theophilides & Terenzini, 1981;Turban & Dougherty, 1994), accessibility and availability (Wilson, Woods, & Gaff, 1974), empathy and respect (Chang, 1981), and locus of control (Ellinger, 2002;Judge & Kammeyer-Mueller, 2007;Kim & Kim, 2007;Turban & Dougherty, 1994). Even though there has been debates over the validity of the five factor model of personality (Bozionelos, 2004), it still remains the most comprehensive, robust, and generalizable model of personality traits (Engstrom, 2004), and most of the articles that discussed the role of personality in mentoring used the model.…”

“…Empirically, personality has been found to impact a person's behavior in mentoring relationships in terms of open communication, extraversion, agreeableness, flexibility (Engstrom, 2004;Theophilides & Terenzini, 1981;Turban & Dougherty, 1994), accessibility and availability (Wilson, Woods, & Gaff, 1974), and empathy and respect (Chang, 1981). The linkage between attachment styles and personality functioning (Bowlby, 1988), makes it natural that early life social experiences plays a significant role in adult mentoring relationships.…”