Attachment and Mentoring Functions of Career and Psychosocial Support

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9783659245237




Страниц 240

Год выпуска 2014

This study examined the relationships between the attachment styles of mentors and proteges, mentoring as measured by psychosocial support and career support, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to turnover. A survey was administered to the participants of a formal faculty mentoring program. Hypotheses were tested through correlational and hierarchical regression analytic procedures. For mentors and proteges, the variables attachment and mentoring were significantly associated with each of the outcome variables job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to turnover. Furthermore, in the case of mentors, attachment and mentoring specifically psychosocial mentoring predicted unique variance in job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and intent to turnover. For proteges, while secure attachment and mentoring predicted unique variance in job satisfaction, only secure attachment predicted unique variance in organizational commitment, and intent to...