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Working to make it work: the role of parents in the youth mentoring process
Author(s) -
Spencer Renée,
BasualdoDelmonico Antoinette,
Lewis Terrence O.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.20416
Subject(s) - dyad , context (archaeology) , psychology , qualitative research , work (physics) , process (computing) , social psychology , developmental psychology , sociology , mechanical engineering , social science , paleontology , engineering , biology , computer science , operating system
Theoretical and empirical work on youth mentoring relationships has been largely focused on the mentor‐youth dyad, with little attention to the larger context within which such relationships form and develop. The perspectives of parents have been absent for the most part from the mentoring literature to date. In‐depth, semistructured, qualitative interviews were conducted with parents ( n =13) of youth who were participating in a community‐based mentoring program. Four major themes were identified: parents' (a) hopes and expectations for the mentoring relationship, (b) trust in the mentor and satisfaction with the relationship, (c) roles in the mentoring relationship, and (d) reflections on and experiences with cultural differences between their child and the mentor. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.