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Abstract:
By improving mentoring competency, mentor development interventions help address the shortage of faculty mentors, the greatest obstacle to developmental network growth. Recent data indicate that mentor development interventions do not enhance mentees' objectively measured scholarly productivity. This may be because longer-term follow-up is needed to assess this outcome, highlighting the importance of using an outcome more sensitive to short-term change. This study examines the impact of a mentor development intervention on mentees' Subjective Career Success Inventory (SCSI) assessment. In a randomized controlled trial, the outcomes for mentees whose faculty mentors participated in a combined asynchronous and synchronous mentor development program (intervention group) were compared to the outcomes for mentees whose faculty mentors participated in an asynchronous program alone (control group). Mentor-mentee dyads (N=91) from four Southwest and Mountain-West institutions were recruited. Mentees' perceived career success was assessed at baseline, 12 months, and 24 months using the 24-item, eight-dimension Shockley's SCSI scale. The repeated measures analysis included the study period times intervention interaction, which was the test of the intervention's effect. At 12 months, the increase in mentees' self-reported SCSI scores from baseline was significantly greater in the intervention group compared to the control group (interaction p=.048). Specifically, the intervention group showed a greater increase from baseline to 12 months for SCSI dimensions of meaningful work, influence, authenticity, and growth and development (all p<.05). By demonstrating the impact of mentor development intervention on mentees' perceived career success, the study strengthens the intervention's value as an institutional investment for enhancing faculty developmental networks.
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