Leading Horses to Water: Male Reluctance to Participate in a Peer Mentorship Program
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https://doi.org/10.26209/mj1061557Abstract
Peer mentorship has been promoted as an alternative or an adjunct to traditional mentoring. One suggested advantage of peer mentorship is that students may be more willing to participate in this type of relationship, because mentor and protege have similar backgrounds, concerns, and statuses. Research indicates that relative to females, males are generally less willing to seek help in a variety of situations. The purpose of our study was to determine if similar sex differences exist in willingness to participate in a peer mentorship program. Compared to females, males expressed less interest in both receiving peer mentoring as well as serving as a peer mentor, although the magnitude of the sex difference was larger regarding interest in being a protege than in being a mentor.
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