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Creating a Quality Youth Mentoring Relationship: The Perspectives of College Student Mentors

Radina, Rachel

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2010, Master of Science, Miami University, Family and Child Studies.
Youth mentoring in the school setting is a fairly new context for youth mentoring programs to occur; therefore, more research is needed in this context to determine how to make this program type most effective. This qualitative study was designed to explore what mentors’ define as quality within youth mentoring relationships in order to determine what factors promote the formation of a bond between the mentor-mentee pair. During in-depth interviews mentors identified four factors they considered to be components of bond building: (1) consistency; (2) a community-based component (i.e. meeting outside of school); (3) spending more time together; and (4) listening. The main overarching goal of this study was to advance the mentoring literature so that it can be used to improve current programs and help enhance the creation of new, more effective programs.
M. Elise Radina (Committee Chair)
Katherine Kuvalanka (Committee Member)
Michael Evans (Committee Member)
45 p.

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  • Radina, R. (2010). Creating a Quality Youth Mentoring Relationship: The Perspectives of College Student Mentors [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1280247731

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Radina, Rachel. Creating a Quality Youth Mentoring Relationship: The Perspectives of College Student Mentors. 2010. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1280247731.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Radina, Rachel. "Creating a Quality Youth Mentoring Relationship: The Perspectives of College Student Mentors." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1280247731

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)