ABSTRACT
Mentoring is a popular organizational strategy to make certain that women and minorities have access to career development. The Mentoring and Communication Support Scale has undergone revisions as it has been used with different populations. Collegial Social Mentoring and Collegial Task Mentoring correlated positively, but Coaching and Career Mentoring were not correlated with job satisfaction. Teacher-Coach Mentoring was added to this list by the management sample; the factor had been embedded in the Paternalistic Mentoring factor in the previous study. With the general population sample, factors appeared again. In this instance, Collegial Task Mentoring and Collegial Social Mentoring collapsed into one factor indicating peer support. The instrument has the potential for enriching studies involving minorities and women. S. E. K. Hill, M. H. Bahniuk, and J. Dobos have already begun to investigate the differential effects of types of mentoring behaviors on success and career development for men and women.
