%0 Journal Article
%T Mentor and prot¨¦g¨¦ goal orientations as predictors of newcomer stress
%A Julia M. Fullick
%A Kimberly A. Smith-Jentsch
%A Charyl Staci Yarbrough
%A Shannon A. Scielzo
%J The Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
%D 2012
%I Indiana University
%X Although many academic organizations offer formal mentoring programs, little is known about how individual characteristics of peer mentors and their prot¨¦g¨¦s interact to reduce new-student stress. First-year college students participated in a peer-mentoring program designed to reduce stress. The results of this study demonstrated that prot¨¦g¨¦s who received greater psychosocial and career support showed greater stress reduction. Additionally, prot¨¦g¨¦s with a higher avoid performance goal orientation showed lesser stress reduction. Mentor avoid performance goal orientation was positively associated with stress reduction for prot¨¦g¨¦s high on avoid performance goal orientation, but negatively associated for those low on avoid performance goal orientation.
%K newcomer socialization
%K mentoring
%K goal orientation
%K stress reduction
%U http://josotl.indiana.edu/article/view/1976