TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Promoting successful youth mentoring relationships: A preliminary screening questionnaire
JO  - Journal of Primary Prevention
A1  - Reddy, Ranjini
A1  - Rhodes, Jean
A1  - Roffman, Jennifer
A1  - Grossman, Jean B.
SP  - 147
EP  - 167
VL  - 26
IS  - 2
N2  - Youth mentoring programs are an increasingly popular intervention, and although successful mentoring relationships can promote a range of positive developmental outcomes, relationships that fail can lead to decrements in a youth's functioning and self-esteem. The present research develops and validates a youth mentoring relationship quality inventory, based on data from a national evaluation of Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) mentoring programs (N = 347 youth). This tool can be administered to adolescents who have been assigned mentors in order to assess the quality of the relationship as it is forming and to identify dyads that may need additional support before those relationships fail. Implications of such a tool for mentoring interventions and research are discussed. Editors' Strategic Implications: Reliability and validity data are presented for a measure of youth's perceptions of the quality of their mentoring relationship. This measure shows promise as a tool for research and evaluation of a wide array of mentoring programs due to its brevity, demonstrated psychometrics, and straightforward focus on the mentoring relationship. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Primary Prevention, 2005. Copyright © 2005 by Springer)  Mentoring Program Juvenile Development Youth Development Child Development Child Self-Esteem Self-Esteem Development Survey Instrument Instrument Development Instrument Validity Juvenile Self-Esteem Juvenile Functioning Child Functioning 04-06<p />
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SN  - 0278-095X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -