title: The measurement properties of mentoring relationship quality scales for mentoring programs.
abstract: The measurement properties of two new scales designed to measure global and engagement mentoring relationship quality (Global Mentoring Relationship Quality Scale and Quality of Mentoring Relationship Engagement Scale) were examined among 272 mentors, 491 children, and 554 parents participating in Big Brothers Big Sisters community mentoring programs across Canada. Results demonstrated their unidimensionality, moderate convergent validity, good external validity, and weak-to-moderate reporter concordance. Longitudinal analyses demonstrated good predictive validity of mentor and parent mentoring relationship quality scales with respect to predicting mentoring relationship status.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Social and Epidemiological Research Department, Suite 200-100 Collip Circle, London, ON, Canada, N6G 4X8, annalise.ferro@camh.ca.
authors.forename: Annalise
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ferro
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Kathy Nixon
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Speechley
authors.forename: Ellen
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lipman
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: DeWit
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008611:Mentors / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D015203:Reproducibility of Results