TY - JOUR
T1 - Mentoring Barriers, Expected Outcomes, and Practices in Scientific Communication
T2 - Scale Development and Validation
AU - Anderson, Cheryl B.
AU - Chang, Shine
AU - Lee, Hwa Young
AU - Baldwin, Constance D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, R01GM085600, “Improving Retention of Minority Trainees: Mentoring in Scientific Communication Skills,” and our National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant P30CA016672.
Publisher Copyright:
© Curators of the University of Missouri 2021.
PY - 2022/6
Y1 - 2022/6
N2 - Developing new scales to measure aspects of mentoring, including guidance in scientific communication (SciComm), is important to enhance success among trainees pursuing research careers in science and medicine. This study examined the psychometric properties of three new measures, based on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), as mentors address skills in scientific writing, oral presentation, and impromptu speaking. Faculty research mentors (N = 194) completed online questionnaires assessing perceptions of mentoring barriers in SciComm, outcome expectations, and practice behaviors in research and SciComm. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses rendered support for a three-factor measure of barriers, one-factor measure of expected outcomes, and a five-factor measure of practices. Good support was also found for a path model that included the variables in the prediction of mentoring practices. Findings support applying SCCT to mentoring and clarify contextual barriers–choice outcome relations which can inform barrier-coping, SciComm interventions among mentors.
AB - Developing new scales to measure aspects of mentoring, including guidance in scientific communication (SciComm), is important to enhance success among trainees pursuing research careers in science and medicine. This study examined the psychometric properties of three new measures, based on social cognitive career theory (SCCT), as mentors address skills in scientific writing, oral presentation, and impromptu speaking. Faculty research mentors (N = 194) completed online questionnaires assessing perceptions of mentoring barriers in SciComm, outcome expectations, and practice behaviors in research and SciComm. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses rendered support for a three-factor measure of barriers, one-factor measure of expected outcomes, and a five-factor measure of practices. Good support was also found for a path model that included the variables in the prediction of mentoring practices. Findings support applying SCCT to mentoring and clarify contextual barriers–choice outcome relations which can inform barrier-coping, SciComm interventions among mentors.
KW - measurement
KW - mentoring
KW - path analysis
KW - scientific communication
KW - social cognitive career theory
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U2 - 10.1177/0894845321991680
DO - 10.1177/0894845321991680
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85101020813
SN - 0894-8453
VL - 49
SP - 697
EP - 713
JO - Journal of Career Development
JF - Journal of Career Development
IS - 3
ER -