I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends
The Impact of a Gender-Tailored Group Mentoring Program on Peer Relationships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6457338 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Bouchard (0000-0001-7496-3991, Simon Fraser University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, corresponding author), Jennifer S Wong (0000-0001-7523-7430, Simon Fraser University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 836-873 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-13 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Early Adolescence (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-4316 • E-ISSN: 1552-5449 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02724316241288911 |
| OpenAlex | W4403404667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 77 |
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based, after-school mentoring programs for 7 th grade students to help them navigate the transition to high school. Survey data from 668 students (233 treatment group and 435 control group) were used to examine the impacts of the YEP on friend support. Multilevel regression models show that the YEP is effective at improving perceptions of friend support in the long term. More research is needed to explore potential gender differences in the experience of supportive friendships after youth transition to high school, as well as the impact of group-based mentoring for youth transitioning to the high school environment
Group (periodic table · Pedagogy · Peer effects · Peer group · Peer mentoring · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare · Family Support in Illness · Mentoring and Academic Development · Psychology · Social Psychology
Design of Observational Studies
The Transition to High School as a Developmental Process Among Multiethnic Urban Youth
Parental Attachment and Peer Relationships in Adolescence
School transitions
The Transition to High School
Doubly Robust Estimation in Missing Data and Causal Inference Models
Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing?
Attachment relationships and adolescents' life satisfaction
A practical guide to multilevel modeling
Mentoring programs to affect delinquency and associated outcomes of youth at risk
Does mentoring matter? A multidisciplinary meta-analysis comparing mentored and non-mentored individuals
Is there heightened sensitivity to social reward in adolescence?
Peers increase adolescent risk taking by enhancing activity in the brain’s reward circuitry
How Effective Are Mentoring Programs for Youth? A Systematic Assessment of the Evidence
Stratification and weighting via the propensity score in estimation of causal treatment effects
Developmental changes and gender differences in adolescents' perceptions of friendships
Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity‐score matched samples
Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies
Using Propensity Scores to Help Design Observational Studies
Reducing Bias in Observational Studies Using Subclassification on the Propensity Score
Missing Data
Having the wrong friends? Peer effects in adolescent substance use
A Review of Hot Deck Imputation for Survey Non‐response
The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects
Matching Methods for Causal Inference
Friendship quality and ethnocultural boys
Early adolescents' perspectives on factors that facilitate and hinder friendship development with peers at the time of school transition
Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods
A novel application of a data mining technique to study intersections in the social determinants of mental health among young Canadians
School Factors Strongly Impact Transgender and Non-Binary Youths’ Well-Being
Transferring friendship
Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Do Not Have Peer Problems, Just Fewer Friends
How Valid Are Measures of Children’s Self-Concept/ Self-Esteem? Factors and Content Validity in Three Widely Used Scales
Girls’ and Boys’ Perceptions of the Transition from Primary to Secondary School
Trajectories of Perceived Friendship Quality During Adolescence
Boys' Friendships During Adolescence
Gender Differences in Friendship Values
The Role of School‐based Group Mentoring in Promoting Resilience among Vulnerable High School Students
A Meta‐Analysis of After‐School Programs That Seek to Promote Personal and Social Skills in Children and Adolescents
Non-Specific versus Targeted Approaches to Youth Mentoring
A Meta-analysis of the Effects of Mentoring on Youth in Foster Care
Does Organizing Mentor-Mentee Matches into Small Groups Enhance Treatment Effects in a Site-Based Mentoring Program for Adolescents? Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial
The Effects of Youth Mentoring Programs
Understanding Students’ Transition to High School
Age Patterns in Risk Taking Across the World
School Climate & Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescent Mental Health
Peer Influence on Risk Taking, Risk Preference, and Risky Decision Making in Adolescence and Adulthood
Modeling Multilevel Data Structures
The Impact of Enhancing Students' Social and Emotional Learning
Assessing pupil concerns about transition to secondary school
Best friends forever'? Friendship stability across school transition and associations with mental health and educational attainment
Social network changes and life events across the life span
Falling Behind
Dropping out of high school
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |