Improving understanding of how mentoring works: Measuring multiple intervention processes.

The objective is to develop and test dimensionality and validity of a new measure of five mentoring intervention processes drawn from emphases across prior mentoring efforts that might be the basis for effects: identification with the mentor, social and emotional support, teaching and education, and advocacy, and shared time and activity. Partial validation of value was drawn from moderation role in a meta-analysis of mentoring (Tolan, Henry, Lovegrove, Schoeny, & Nichols, 2014. J.