A comparison of face-to-face and electronic peer-mentoring: Interactions with mentor gender

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• 作者：Kimberly A. Smith-Jentsch ; Shannon A. Scielzo ; Charyl S. Yarbrough ; Patrick J. Rosopa
• 关键词：Peer-mentoring ; Formal mentoring ; Electronic communication ; Self-efficacy ; Gender effects
• 刊名：Journal of Vocational Behavior
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：April 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：72
• 期：2
• 页码：193-206
• 全文大小：175 K

文摘

The present study compared the relative impact of peer-mentoring that took place either face-to-face or through electronic chat. Protégés were 106 college freshmen randomly assigned to a senior college student mentor and to one of the two communication modes. Fifty-one mentors interacted with one of these proteges face-to-face and one solely through electronic chat. Electronic chat resulted in less psychosocial support, career support, and post-mentoring protege self-efficacy for those with male but not female mentors. Analyses of coded transcripts revealed that males condensed their language to a greater extent than did females in the electronic chat condition relative to the face-to-face condition. Dyads in the electronic chat condition had more interactive dialogue than did those in the face-to-face condition. Finally, dialogue interactivity predicted post-mentoring self-efficacy but only for those who communicated through electronic chat.