Looking to help novice scientific writers improve their skills and enhance the likelihood of scientific publication, the IJTMB launched a writing mentorship program. Research indicates that when novice writers have a mentor and work on writing as a team, the authors can gain self-efficacy, manuscripts are improved, thoughts and writing are clarified, and differing perspectives are added. This e...

Social capital, including engagement with mentors, facilitates educational attainment. However, mentors differs significantly across groups of adolescents different backgrounds, an immigrant background. We investigate how generation predicts adolescents’ and types (i.e., school-based non-school-based), the association attainment, these estimates’ heterogeneity based on generation. analyzed nati...

Background For Inspiration and Recognition of Science Technology (FIRST) robotics is an international, extra-curricular program that fosters young students' interpersonal skills career choices in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM). FIRST teams are guided by mentors, about half whom also mentees. Purpose To describe characterize mentors their perceptions own STEM choice identif...

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation is designed to provide summer academic experiences for undergraduate students through participation in research. Although students are paired with faculty mentors to work on a research project, many times graduate students are highly involved in the mentoring process. In this paper, we evaluat...

Background: Many university students are becoming involved in mentoring programs, yet few studies describe the impact of mentoring on the mentor. Additionally, many studies report that students graduating from college are not prepared to enter the workforce in terms of key career skills and/or content knowledge. Herein, we examine the impact of our program, NE STEM 4U (Nebraska Science, Technol...

BACKGROUND Easy access to the internet has spawned a wealth of research to investigate the effects of its use on depression. However, one limitation of many previous studies is that they disregard the interactive mechanisms of risk and protective factors. The aim of the present study was to investigate a resilience model in the relationship between worry, daily internet video game playing, dail...

High-quality care during labor, delivery, and the postpartum period is critically important since maternal and child morbidity and mortality are linked to complications that arise during these stages. A nurse mentoring program was implemented in northern Karnataka, India, to improve quality of services at primary health centers (PHCs), the lowest level in the public health system that offers ba...

In 2006, the Kenyan state joined the international commitment to make antiretroviral treatment free in public health institutions to people infected with HIV. Less than a decade later, treatment has reached over 60% of those who need it in Kenya. This paper, which is based on an in-depth ethnographic case study of the HIV treatment programme at Kenyatta National Hospital, conducted intermittent...

Two studies were conducted to examine how perceptions of support for mentoring relate to mentoring attitudes and outcomes for both protégés and mentors, over and above established predictors. In study 1, protégés provided information on their perceptions of support for mentoring and mentoring received. As expected, perceived management support for mentoring was positively related to career-rela...

This study examines youth initiated mentoring (YIM), a new approach to mentoring in which youth nominate mentors from among the non-parental adults within their existing social networks (e.g., teachers, family friends, extended family members). YIM is currently being implemented through the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program (NGYCP), an intensive residential intervention program for youth a...