ERIC Number: EJ730173
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Publication Date: 2004-Dec
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Protege--Mentor Agreement about the Provision of Psychosocial Support: The Mentoring Relationship, Personality, and Workload
Waters, Lea
Journal of Vocational Behavior, v65 n3 p519-532 Dec 2004
Protege--mentor agreement (PMA) about the provision of psychosocial support was examined in relation to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and work self-esteem. One-hundred and sixty-six junior administrative and information technology (IT) staff at an Australian university and their matched mentors completed a questionnaire that assessed three antecedents to PMA: (1) structural and experience aspects of the mentorship (type and length of relationship, frequency of meetings, previous experience with mentoring, and gender-mix); (2) protege and mentor personality (agreeableness, openness, extroversion, neuroticism, and conscientiousness); and (3) protege and mentor workload. Structural Equation Modeling using Partial Least Squares revealed that PMA was predicted by structural and experience aspects of the mentorship (type of mentorship, frequency of meetings, and experience of the mentor), protege personality (agreeableness, openness, extroversion, and conscientiousness), mentor personality (agreeableness, openness, and extroversion), and mentor workload. Protege--mentor agreement was positively related to job satisfaction and organizational commitment for proteges and mentors.
Descriptors: Personality, Structural Equation Models, Least Squares Statistics, Job Satisfaction, Mentors, Faculty Workload, Foreign Countries, Professional Personnel, Questionnaires, Administrator Education, Information Technology, Individual Development
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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