Volunteered or Voluntold? The Motivations and Perceived Outcomes of Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentors of Undergraduate Researchers
Volunteered or Voluntold? The Motivations and Perceived Outcomes of Graduate and Postdoctoral Mentors of Undergraduate Researchers
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DOI：
10.1187/cbe.18-10-0219
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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3.7
通讯作者：
Dolan, Erin L.
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作者：
Limeri, Lisa B.;Asif, Muhammad Zaka;Dolan, Erin L.
生命科学领域的研究生和博士后研究人员(研究生)经常指导本科生研究人员，特别是在研究型大学。然而，从研究生的角度对这种关系进行的调查并不多。我们对来自不同机构、生命科学学科和研究类型的32名研究生导师的经历进行了探索性研究，以检验他们的指导动机和他们感知的结果。尽管一些研究生报告说有压力要指导本科生研究人员，但所有人都表达了个人动机，包括代理动机(以自我为中心)和社区动机(以社区为中心)。这些研究生报告了辅导的好处和成本，其中既有职业因素，也有心理社会因素。鉴于我们的结果表明，即使是在导师的要求下从事指导工作的研究生也有自己的动机，我们进行了第二阶段的分析，以确定我们的结果与不同的动机理论(自主理论、社会认知职业理论、期望价值理论、社会交换理论)的一致性程度。最后，我们提出了一个对本科生研究人员进行研究生指导的模式，该模式整合了我们的发现所支持的理论。
Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers (postgraduates) in the life sciences frequently mentor undergraduate researchers, especially at research universities. Yet there has been only modest investigation of this relationship from the postgraduate perspective. We conducted an exploratory study of the experiences of 32 postgraduate mentors from diverse institutions, life sciences disciplines, and types of research to examine their motivations for mentoring and their perceived outcomes. Although some postgraduates reported feeling pressured to mentor undergraduate researchers, all expressed personal motivations, including both agentic (self-focused) and communal (community-focused) motivations. These postgraduates reported benefits and costs of mentoring that had both vocational and psychosocial elements. Given that our results indicated that even postgraduates who engaged in mentoring at the request of their faculty advisors had their own motivations, we conducted a second phase of analysis to determine the extent to which our results aligned with different theories of motivation (self-determination theory, social cognitive career theory, expectancy-value theory, social exchange theory). We end by proposing a model of postgraduate mentoring of undergraduate researchers that integrates the theories supported by our findings.