‘I really enjoy it’: Emotional Engagement of University Peer Mentors
Peer mentoring programs are commonly used to facilitate the transition of new students into higher education settings. Peer mentors’ experiences and emotions during mentoring are important but under-researched. We report exploratory work to address this gap in a two-phase study using a grounded t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre for Resilience & Socio-Emotional Health
2019-11-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Emotional Education |
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| Online Access: | https://www.um.edu.mt/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/417069/v11i2p4.pdf |
| Summary: | Peer mentoring programs are commonly used to facilitate the transition of new students
into higher education settings. Peer mentors’ experiences and emotions during
mentoring are important but under-researched. We report exploratory work to address
this gap in a two-phase study using a grounded theory approach. In Phase 1 mentors in
an Australian university responded to online (n=35) or face-to-face (n=10) questions
about their emotions during a peer mentor program. Emotions were found to be
primarily positive, mentors varied in the extent to which they express emotions, and
emotions relating to different time points were evident. In Phase 2, we examined
temporal dimensions of emotions in more depth with peer mentors in a German
university and added anticipated future emotions to existing categories. Connections
between mentors’ emotions and their own early experiences at university were
explored, with another category of recalled prior emotions being added. Our findings
are consistent with previous research regarding the positive and negative emotional
aspects of being a peer mentor and further contribute to the understanding of the
complexity of emotions in mentoring, specifically peer mentoring in higher education
settings. |
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| ISSN: | 2073-7629 2073-7629 |