دورية أكاديمية

SPIRITUAL MENTORING DURING EMERGING ADULTHOOD: A DYADIC PERSPECTIVE

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: SPIRITUAL MENTORING DURING EMERGING ADULTHOOD: A DYADIC PERSPECTIVE
المؤلفون: Reed, Jeffrey L.
المصدر: Theses and Dissertations--Family Sciences ; ftunivkentucky
بيانات النشر: UKnowledge
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Spiritual Mentoring, Emerging Adulthood, Religion, Mentoring, Family, Life Course, and Society, Religious Education, relig, hisphilso
الوصف: Mentoring relationships have long been identified as a valuable means for supporting identity development in young adults and assisting these individuals in navigating life transitions. The guidance and stability afforded by mentoring relationships can be particularly beneficial to individuals undergoing transitions in their personal or professional lives, or both, and are thus well-suited to play a meaningful role in the lives of emerging adults. Emerging adults are also in a unique developmental stage in which they experience increased freedom and opportunity for exploration away from parents and guardians. While this freedom often results in increased risky behavior, it also allows for exploration and evaluation of moral systems and religious beliefs- a process that is at times accomplished alongside a mentor. However, existing mentoring research is largely directed towards three types of mentoring relationships (adolescent, academic, and vocational) and the spiritual mentoring of emerging adults is infrequently addressed. It is even more rare to find research on the influence of spiritual mentors and the ways mentors may be impacted by spiritual mentoring. Guided by the broader mentoring literature and Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory, the current quantitative study aims to better understand spiritual mentoring relationships and their reciprocal influence on mentors and mentees through the actor-partner interdependence model. The study was conducted using data gleaned from 189 spiritual mentoring pairs. Respondents were obtained through convenience and snowball sampling methods that consistent of contacting colleges, campus organizations, and college ministries across the country that help facilitate spiritual mentoring relationships. Overall, numerous factors from both mentee and mentors’ perspectives that were associated with higher levels of mentee relationship quality, instrumental support, psychosocial support, and mentor relationship quality are detailed. Additionally, a preliminary investigation of ...
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العلاقة: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/87Test
الإتاحة: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/hes_etds/87Test
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رقم الانضمام: edsbas.F1AFBCAA
قاعدة البيانات: BASE