ERIC Number: EJ1045696
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Dec
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-0894-8453
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Quantity, Quality, and Satisfaction with Mentoring: What Matters Most?
Xu, Xiaohong; Payne, Stephanie C.
Journal of Career Development, v41 n6 p507-525 Dec 2014
According to Kram's mentor role theory, satisfaction with mentoring and mentorship quality are key indicators of effective and successful mentoring. We contribute to mentoring research by demonstrating the relative importance of mentorship quantity, mentorship quality, and satisfaction with mentoring to the prediction of job satisfaction, affective commitment, and turnover intentions. Survey data from 472 faculty members revealed the importance of that satisfaction with mentoring in that it mediated the effect of mentorship quality on job satisfaction and turnover intentions, and it explained variance in three job attitudes above and beyond mentorship quantity and quality. Implications for organizational mentoring are discussed.
Descriptors: Mentors, Educational Quality, Job Satisfaction, Affective Objectives, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Persistence, Incidence, Program Length, Work Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Participant Satisfaction, Likert Scales, Regression (Statistics), Online Surveys, College Faculty, Predictor Variables
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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