Purpose of Measure: "Students with faculty mentors were asked to broadly assess the quality of their mentorship relationships using a nine-item scale of mentor support adapted from Dreher and Ash (1990)."
Lay-Person Terms: To identify mentor's behaviors in a mentoring relationship as perceived by the mentee.
Measure:
To what extent has your mentor:
| 1. Not at all | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. To a very large extent | |
| 1. Discussed your questions or concerns regarding feelings of competence, commitment to advancement, or relationship with peers? | |||||
| 2. Conveyed empathy for concerns or feelings you have discussed with them? | |||||
| 3. Encouraged you to talk openly about anxieties and fears? | |||||
| 4. Shared personal experiences with you? | |||||
| 5. Helped you finish assignments/tasks or meet deadlines that would otherwise have been difficult to complete? | |||||
| 6. Helped you improve your writing skills? | |||||
| 7. Helped you meet people elsewhere? | |||||
| 8. Given you challenging assignments that present opportunities to learn new skills? | |||||
| 9. Helped you meet other people in your field at the university? | |||||
| 10. Helped you find opportunities that would be beneficial to you professionally or academically? |
Type of Validity: Hernandez et. al., 2017 did exploratory factor analysis of a shortened 15-item scale adapted from the Dreher and Ash, 1990 scale, developed for a corporate setting.
Citation of Publication: Shortened 10 - item measure - Hernandez et. al., 2018 ; Supplementary info for full measure
Instructions to analyze and interpret: "The items were averaged together to create subscales scores; higher scores indicated greater faculty mentor psychosocial or instrumental support." - Hernandez et. al., 2018 "Scale scores for each construct were derived by averaging the nine indicators of psychosocial support (Cronbach's alpha = .85; M = 4.16, SD = 0.59) and the six indicators of instrumental support (Cronbach's alpha = .82; M = 3.80, SD = 0.77) such that higher score indicate higher levels of mentoring support received." - Hernandez et. al., 2016 Requires revalidation for use in graduate student and postdoc populations
Other citations: Original validation study:
Original measure: Dreher, G. F., & Ash, R. A. (1990). A comparative study of mentoring among men and women in managerial, professional, and technical positions. Journal of Applied Psychology, 75(5), 539–546. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.75.5.539