Measure Overview
Measures respondents’ confidence, willingness, and comfort mentoring trainees of a different race/ethnicity than their own.
*This measure is currently asking about racial/ethnic diversity. It could be adapted for other kinds of diversity if needed.
Measure Information
- Scale
- Target Population
- NIH DPC Hallmark
- Key Citations
- Instructions
- Validity Evidence and Other Information
Prompt: To what degree do you agree/disagree with the following statements?
| Strongly Disagree (1) | Disagree (2) | Neutral (3) | Agree (4) | Strongly Agree (5) | |
| I intend to help increase diversity in the academy through mentorship | |||||
| I would be comfortable assuming a mentoring role | |||||
| I am able to help diverse students be better prepared for graduate studies | |||||
| I have no desire to be a mentor | |||||
| I would like to mentor in the future, regardless of the mentee's gender, race, or background | |||||
| I feel unqualified to be a mentor | |||||
| I would not want the risk of being put in a bad light by my mentee's failures |
- Postdoc
- Faculty
FAC-4
Primary Citation: Morales, D.X., Grineski, S.E., & Collins, T.W. (2017). Influences on faculty willingness to mentor undergraduate students from another university as part of an interinstituational research training program. CBE Life Sciences Education, 15(30), 1-15. doi: https://www.lifescied.org/doi/epdf/10.1187/cbe.16-01-0039
Ragins, B.R., & Scandura, T.A. (1999). Burden or blessing: Expected costs and benefits of being a mentor. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 20, 493-509. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1379(199907)20:4%3C493::AID-JOB894%3E3.0.CO;2-T
Belle Rose Ragins, John L. Cotton, Gender and willingness to mentor in organizations, Journal of Management, Volume 19, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 97-111, ISSN 0149-2063, https://doi.org/10.1016/0149-2063(93)90047-Q
Items can be used individually or collapsed into a mean scale score using the arithmetic mean of all item scores. Please note that items #4 and #6 are reverse scored and should be coded accordingly when calculating mean scale scores.
There is no published evidence of validity for this measure. Note that the measures found in the key citations were used to develop and adapt this measure. For more information on the measure’s development, please contact Dr. Carrie Cameron’s team.
Note that this measure, though aligned with FAC-4 a DPC Hallmark of Success on Self-Efficacy, is a scale which includes attitudes and self-efficacy items. See description.
Please note that Dr. Cameron’s team chose items from the three published scales cited to align with the purpose of their study.