Mentoring relationships with aggressive children : an investigation of putative correlates and putative outcomes /
This study investigated differences between mentoring relationship clusters. First, a longitudinal clustering technique was used to derive distinct relationship clusters. Based on the expectation that the three mentor attachment styles would play an important role in shaping the mentoring relationsh...
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This study investigated differences between mentoring relationship clusters. First, a longitudinal clustering technique was used to derive distinct relationship clusters. Based on the expectation that the three mentor attachment styles would play an important role in shaping the mentoring relationships, three relationship clusters were produced. These three relationship clusters were compared on a number of variables that, based on past research, were hypothesized to influence the process of the mentoring relationship: mentor avoidance, mentor ambivalence. I also examined the differences among clusters for both lower and higher aggressive children. Following this, I compared these three relationship clusters on four summary ratings of relationship conflict and quality made by both mentors and mentees. Finally, based on the hypothesis that the different experiences of the mentoring relationship would differentially challenge and perhaps change children's beliefs about aggression, I compared all three relationship clusters on the three putative outcomes representing change in beliefs about aggression from the beginning to the end of the relationship. Overall, analyses of our hypotheses concerning the relationship between mentor attachment and child aggression on relationship conflict yielded mixed results. Children with different levels of aggression within the clusters had mentors with different levels of avoidance, suggesting that the interactions between the child's aggression and the mentors' avoidance are important for shaping the mentoring experience. Mentors with different levels of ambivalence had qualitatively different relationships, suggesting that mentor ambivalence has a stronger influence on shaping the mentor relationship than the interaction between mentor ambivalence and child aggression. Analyses looking at the relations between relationship clusters and putative outcomes yielded mixed results. Relationship clusters did reflect differences in mentors' summary ratings of relationship conflict and quality. However, the three relationship clusters did not differ on children's ratings of relationship conflict and quality, suggesting that mentors and mentees may perceive the mentoring relationship quite differently. Furthermore, relationship clusters did not appear to predict changes in children's beliefs about aggression. However, the experience of conflict in the relationship by children with different levels of aggression did differentially result in changes on one of the social-cognitive variable examined. |
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| Item Description: | Vita. "Major Subject: Psychology". |
| Physical Description: | viii, 49 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-48). |