ERIC Number: EJ1130378
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017-Jan
Pages: 17
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ISSN: EISSN-1552-9045
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Race and Gender Mentor-Protégé Pairings of Resident Assistants: An Exploration on Leadership Capacity
Early, Sherry L.
Journal of Leadership Education, v16 n1 p1-17 Jan 2017
The leadership capacity of resident assistants can be impacted by many experiences, including involvement in mentoring relationships. The purpose of this study was to examine if and how resident assistants' leadership capacities are influenced by participating in mentoring relationships. Additionally, mentor-protégé race and gender pairings were explored. An adapted version of Astin's Inputs-Environments-Outcomes college impact model was used as the conceptual framework; the Social Change Model of Leadership was used as the theoretical framework. Overall findings included that resident assistants with a race match or gender match did not exhibit significantly higher leadership capacities than those who did not. I also included implications for practice and future recommendations.
Descriptors: College Students, Resident Advisers, Student Leadership, Leadership Qualities, Dormitories, Mentors, Teacher Student Relationship, Race, Sex, Social Change, Models, Social Responsibility, Leadership Training, Regression (Statistics), Peer Relationship, Predictor Variables, Pretesting, Scores, Statistical Significance
Association of Leadership Educators. e-mail: Jole@aged.tamu.edu; Web site: http://leadershipeducators.org/page-1014283
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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