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Personality Predictors of Protégé Mentoring History
Author(s) -
FagensonEland Ellen A.,
Baugh S. Gayle
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2001.tb00187.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , multivariate analysis of variance , dominance (genetics) , univariate , social psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , need for achievement , clinical psychology , multivariate statistics , statistics , chemistry , biochemistry , mathematics , gene
The present study identifies personality characteristics that are predicted to be associated with protégé status in a series of mentoring relationships, an area of research that has not been explored previously. Predictors of mentoring history identified are need for achievement, need for dominance, self‐esteem, and tension dissipation. A MANOVA, using number of previous mentors as the independent variable and 4 personality characteristics (need for achievement, need for dominance, self‐esteem, and tension dissipation) as outcome variables, showed a significant relationship. Univariate follow‐up tests indicated that the number of previous mentoring relationships was significantly associated with need for achievement, need for dominance, and self‐esteem, but not tension dissipation. Results are discussed in terms of protégé development, and directions for future research are suggested.