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Mentoring in the social context: Mentors' experiences with mentees' peers in a site-based program

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  • Pryce, Julia
  • Giovannetti, Samantha
  • Spencer, Renée
  • Elledge, L. Christian
  • Gowdy, Grace
  • Whitley, Marisa L.
  • Cavell, Timothy A.

Abstract

The primary mechanism by which mentoring promotes positive outcomes is typically considered to be the one-to-one relationship between mentor and youth. However, many mentoring relationships, particularly those in site-based programs, unfold within and are influenced by the larger contexts in which mentoring takes place. In the present study, we examined 161 first-person accounts written by college students serving as Lunch Buddy mentors in an elementary school-based mentoring program. This examination aims to glean insights into mentors' experiences of and responses to their mentees' peers as they carried out the mentoring relationship in a school cafeteria setting, and the ways that mentors' engagement of mentees' peer networks might have influenced the mentoring process. Our analyses delineate the different approaches taken by mentors to engage mentees' peers, and the challenge of focusing on the mentoring relationship while also managing interactions involving mentees' peers. Findings shed light on how the contexts in which mentoring relationships occur shape the course and function of mentoring, and expand our understanding of the processes through which mentoring relationships can promote positive change for mentees.

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  • Pryce, Julia & Giovannetti, Samantha & Spencer, Renée & Elledge, L. Christian & Gowdy, Grace & Whitley, Marisa L. & Cavell, Timothy A., 2015. "Mentoring in the social context: Mentors' experiences with mentees' peers in a site-based program," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 185-192.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:56:y:2015:i:c:p:185-192
    DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2015.06.015
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    1. Mutignani, Lauren M. & Steggerda, Jake C. & Scafe, Meredith J. & Vengurlekar, Ishan N. & Cavell, Timothy A., 2024. "The Practice of Rematching in Youth Mentoring: A Study of Planned Rematches in School-Based Mentoring for Children Identified as Aggressive," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 158(C).
    2. Dutton, Hilary & Deane, Kelsey L. & Bullen, Pat, 2018. "Distal and experiential perspectives of relationship quality from mentors, mentees, and program staff in a school-based youth mentoring program," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 85(C), pages 53-62.
    3. Busse, Heide & Campbell, Rona & Kipping, Ruth, 2018. "Examining the wider context of formal youth mentoring programme development, delivery and maintenance: A qualitative study with mentoring managers and experts in the United Kingdom," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 95-108.
    4. Kazlauskaite, Vaida & Braughton, Jacqueline E. & Weiler, Lindsey M. & Haddock, Shelley & Henry, Kimberly L. & Lucas-Thompson, Rachel, 2020. "Adolescents’ experiences of mentor alliance and sense of belonging in a site-based mentoring intervention," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 114(C).

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