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Mentoring As a Buffer for the Impact of Social Unrest Due to Systemic Racism and Ambient Discrimination

Overview
Journal Chron Mentor Coach
Date 2024 Sep 16
PMID 39282092
Authors
Audrey J Murrell
Doris M Rubio
Maya S Thakar
Natalia E Morone
Gretchen E White
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Abstract

Mentoring may act as a buffer for the negative impacts of racial trauma. Building Up (conducted 2020-2024) is a cluster-randomized trial at 25 institutions of postdoctoral fellows and early-career faculty from underrepresented backgrounds. Generalized linear mixed models were used to identify mentoring competencies associated with the impact of social unrest due to systemic racism. Eighty-two percent of participants (n=143) identified as female, 33% as non-Hispanic Black, and 36% as Hispanic. Mentoring that aligns expectations and mentoring that assesses understanding were significantly associated with social unrest due to systemic racism impacting ability to work (OR=2.84 and OR=0.52, respectively) and conduct research (OR=4.21 and OR=0.41, respectively). Future research should elucidate specific aspects of mentoring relationships that serve as a buffer during times of social unrest.

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