Rack, Nina (2022) The Effect of Peer Mentors on Student Participation: Disentangling the Role of Self-Disclosure, Trust, and Anxious Attachment Style. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Research has shown that peer mentors have a positive impact on student participation. In this study, a mediating effect of trust on the relationship between peer mentor self-disclosure and student classroom participation was predicted. Based on Basic Needs Theory within the framework of self-determination theory, it was proposed that peer mentor self-disclosure fulfils students’ need for relatedness and makes them therefore more likely to participate in class. It was further predicted that an anxious attachment style would moderate the effect of peer mentor self-disclosure on trust, such that with increasing levels of anxious attachment students would experience less trust in response to the self-disclosure from their peer mentor. The sample consisted of 98 first-year Psychology students at the RUG. An online questionnaire using Qualtrics (Qualtrics, 2022) measured the following concepts: peer mentor self-disclosure, student-mentor trust, student participation, and anxious attachment. A bootstrap analysis using PROCESS (Hayes, 2013) failed to support the hypothesized model. This study showed that neither the amount of personal information a mentor discloses nor the level of trust experienced by students play a role with regard to student participation. Instead, it seems to be more important that peer mentors disclose information that is relevant to the course content when wanting to increase both trust and student participation. With regard to student-mentor trust, it is beneficial to focus on disclosing more positive experiences as compared to negative ones. An anxious attachment style was shown to negatively influence students’ participation. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. Keywords: peer mentoring, self-disclosure, anxious attachment, trust, student participation
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Donofrio, S.M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jun 2022 12:53 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Jun 2022 12:53 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/673 |
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