Can Mentoring Promote Self-esteem and School Connectedness? An Evaluation of the Mentor-UP Project
dc.contributor.author | Marino, Claudia | |
dc.contributor.author | Santinello, Massimo | |
dc.contributor.author | Lenzi, Michela | |
dc.contributor.author | Santoro, Paolo | |
dc.contributor.author | Bergamin, Marisa | |
dc.contributor.author | Gaboardi, Marta | |
dc.contributor.author | Calcagni, Antonio | |
dc.contributor.author | Altoe, Gianmarco | |
dc.contributor.author | Perkins, Douglas D. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-04T20:07:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-04T20:07:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Marino, C. , Santinello, M., Lenzi, M., Santoro, P., Bergamin, M., Gaboardi, M., Calcagnì, A., Altoè, G., and Perkins, D. D. (2020). Can Mentoring Promote Self-esteem and School Connectedness? An Evaluation of the Mentor-UP Project. Psychosocial Intervention, 29(1) 1 - 8. https://doi.org/10.5093/pi2019a13 Correspondence: claudia.marino@unipd.it (C. Marino). | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1132-0559 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15609 | |
dc.description.abstract | Research in the United States has shown that youth mentoring is a promising strategy for increasing self-esteem and school connectedness in at-risk youth. There has been little confirmation of those findings internationally. The current study evaluates the impact of mentoring by trained university students on children's self-esteem and school connectedness compared to schoolmates not involved in the program. Mentor-UP is a school- and community-based weekly mentoring program implemented in northern Italy over a period of seven months. Participants (209 students - 34 in the experimental group and 175 in the comparison group - aged between 11 and 13,56% male, 27% immigrants) reported their levels of self-esteem and school connectedness at the beginning and at the end of the program. Results showed a significant increase in mentees' self-esteem compared to the control group, while the difference in school-connectedness was nonsignificant. The findings support the effectiveness of Mentor-UP in nurturing youth's self-esteem. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Psychological Inervention | en_US |
dc.rights | Psychosocial Intervention is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License | |
dc.source.uri | https://journals.copmadrid.org/pi/art/pi2019a13 | |
dc.subject | Youth mentoring | en_US |
dc.subject | Self-esteem | en_US |
dc.subject | School connectedness | en_US |
dc.subject | Italy | en_US |
dc.subject | Prevention programs | en_US |
dc.title | Can Mentoring Promote Self-esteem and School Connectedness? An Evaluation of the Mentor-UP Project | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5093/pi2019a13 |