Factors Related to Mentor Reports of Mentoring Functions Provided: Gender and Relational Characteristics

By Tammy D. Allen, L. Eby. 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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“How to Do Things with Words”: The Discursive Dimension of Experiential Learning in Entrepreneurial Mentoring Dyads (2013, background): “Reich (1986) discovered that female mentors provide more psychosociological functions than male mentors, whereas male mentors may provide more career-related support (Allen and Eby 2004).”
Mentoring Relationships From the Perspective of the Mentor (2007, background): “Based on mentor self-reports, Allen and Eby (2004) found no differences in mentoring provided in same-gender versus cross-gender mentoring relationships.”
Informal Mentoring at Work: A Review and Suggestions for Future Research (2016, unknown): “However, this result was not confirmed in a later study by Allen and Eby (2004).”
The role of gender in youth mentoring relationship formation and duration (2008, background): “Indeed, although some studies have found that longer duration mentorships tend to be more psychosocial in nature, others have found stronger associations with career functions (Allen & Eby, 2004; Burke et al., 1993; Fagenson-Eland, Marks, & Amendola, 1997).”
The Mentoring Relationship Challenges Scale: The impact of mentoring stage, type, and gender (2011, background): “Allen and Eby (2004) also found that female mentors provided more psychosocial support to protégés and male mentors provide more career support overall.”
Antecedents of mentoring support: a meta-analysis of individual, relational, and structural or organizational factors (2014, background): “…andmentor's personality traits, learning goal orientation, perceived similarity betweenmentor and protégé, and demographic variables to name a few (Allen & Eby, 2004; Armstrong, Allinson, & Hayes, 2002; Godshalk & Sosik, 2003; Liang & Gong, 2012) and few meta-analyses have been conducted on some…”
Are Women Tending and Befriending in the Workplace? Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Workplace Friendships and Organizational Outcomes (2008, background): “In the context of mentoring, Allen and Eby (2004) found that male mentors reported providing more career mentoring to their proteges, whereas female mentors reported providing more psychosocial mentoring.”
What do Doctoral Students Value in their Ideal Mentor? (2008, background): “Much of the research has examined actual mentoring functions in same- and cross-gender mentor-protégé relationships (Allen and Eby 2004; Clark et al. 2000; Noe 1988).”
The state of mentoring research: A qualitative review of current research methods and future research implications (2008, methodology): “It should also be noted that the most commonly used measures of mentoring (i.e., Noe, 1988; Scandura, 1992) have not been tested for equivalence with mentor samples, despite commonly being used for mentor reports of mentoring provided (e.g., Allen & Eby, 2004).”