Journal article
Informal mentoring and young adult employment
Social science research, Vol.36(4), pp.1328-1347
2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/107325
PMCID: PMC2151739
PMID: 19050736
Abstract
This study explores the role of informal mentoring (i.e., developing an important relationship with a non-parental adult) in the transition to full time employment among young adults (age 23–28). Multivariate analysis of the Add Health data reveals that mentoring is positively related to the likelihood of full time employment, and the relationship involves both selection and causation processes. Entrance into the world of work facilitates the development of mentoring relationships, especially among youth who identify work-related mentors after adolescence. These relationships have the potential for promoting attachment to the labor force. Mentoring relationships that develop outside of work settings and during adolescence have a positive impact on the odds of full time employment. The receipt of guidance and advice from mentors, as well as access to weak-tied mentoring relationships, teacher mentors, and friend mentors all contribute to the increased odds of employment in young adulthood. However, adolescent mentoring may be less effective among young women than it is among young men.
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- Title
- Informal mentoring and young adult employment
- Creators
- Steve McDonald - Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Campus Box 8107, Raleigh, NC 27695-8107, USALance D Erickson - Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, USAMonica Kirkpatrick Johnson - Department of Sociology, Washington State University, USAGlen H Elder - Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, USA
- Publication Details
- Social science research, Vol.36(4), pp.1328-1347
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Identifiers
- 99900547189101842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article