| 658 | Saturday, March 20, 2010 |
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| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM | Convention Center:101-102 |
| NAGWS/(also known as GWS) National Association for Girls and Women in Sport |
| Differences in Mentoring Preferences by Female College Student-Athletes |
| College is a time when female student-athletes are in transition in their athletic, academic and personal lives. As a result, mentoring relationships may be increasingly relevant to female student-athletes. Many females, however, encounter challenges in finding a mentor and may desire different mentoring functions than male student-athletes. This study examines how mentoring sources and functional preferences may be different for female student-athletes compared to male student-athletes using Kram’s (1985) mentor role theory. |
Keyword(s): college level issues, gender issues
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| Speakers: Judy C. Peel and Michelle Gacio Harrolle, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Andrea Pent, Neumann College, Aston, PA |