Peifer Janelle S, Lawrence Edith C, Williams Joanna Lee, Leyton-Armakan Jen
Department of Human Services, University of Virginia.
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol. 2016 Jul;22(3):440-6. doi: 10.1037/cdp0000078. Epub 2016 Feb 11.
Many mentoring programs place minority group mentees with majority group mentors. These programs aim to promote beneficial outcomes for their diverse participants. The present study explores mentors of color and White mentors' ethnocultural empathy and ethnic identities in association with their minority group mentees' ethnic identities.
Our study examined 95 mentoring pairs of middle school girls of color and college student women from both majority and minority group cultural backgrounds.
A series of linear regressions revealed an association between mentors' ethnocultural empathy and EI exploration/commitment and minority group mentees' ethnic identity exploration, regardless of the mentors' majority group status.
The results of this preliminary study suggest that mentors' cultural identity and empathy may be linked with mentees' willingness to explore their own ethnic identities. We discuss the implications for mentoring programs that seek to build participants' ethnic identities and ethnocultural empathy. (PsycINFO Database Record
许多指导计划将少数群体的受指导者与多数群体的指导者配对。这些计划旨在为其不同的参与者带来有益的结果。本研究探讨有色人种指导者和白人指导者的民族文化同理心及种族身份与其少数群体受指导者的种族身份之间的关联。
我们的研究调查了95对来自有色人种的中学女生和具有多数群体及少数群体文化背景的大学生女性的指导关系。
一系列线性回归分析表明，无论指导者的多数群体身份如何，指导者的民族文化同理心与身份认同探索/投入和少数群体受指导者的种族身份探索之间存在关联。
这项初步研究的结果表明，指导者的文化身份和同理心可能与受指导者探索自身种族身份的意愿有关。我们讨论了这些结果对旨在培养参与者种族身份和民族文化同理心的指导计划的启示。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
