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Reagan L Miller-Chagnon1, Jill T Krause2, Megan J Moran2
1Department of Psychology, College of Natural Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.
Abstract:
It is currently unclear if individual and environmental risk factors impact youth experiences of mentoring. The goal of this study was to clarify the moderating effect of individual and environmental risk factors on mentoring programs outcomes. Participants were 676 youth (10-19 years-old) and their guardians engaged in a site-based, targeted mentoring program. Results revealed that youth with greater individual risk factors compared to fewer risk factors, experienced greatest reductions in internalizing problems, emotional problems and delinquency. Youth with greater environmental risk factors, compared to fewer, also experienced greatest reductions in peer problems. These findings underscore the benefits of targeted and supportive mentoring programs for youth exposed to a high degree of individual and environmental risk factors. These results also tentatively highlight one way that youth mentoring programs may help to reduce mental health disparities among adolescents exposed to adversities.
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