Mentoring can reduce anxiety, study finds
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Mentoring of junior colleagues can reduce anxiety and improve the mental health of the mentors themselves, finds a new study.
The mentoring of junior colleagues can reduce anxiety and improve the mental health of the mentors themselves in high-pressure occupations, concludes a new study co-authored at Cambridge Judge Business School involving an English police force.
While previous research had indicated that the anxiety of mentees can be reduced through the guidance of more senior mentors, the new study finds that imparting knowledge and experience can also help mentors by making their jobs more rewarding.
‘We found that mentoring relationships provide a unique context for mentors to discuss and normalise their concerns, to share ideas for managing anxieties, and to find more meaning in their work,’ concludes the study, published in the Journal of Vocational Behavior.
‘Mentoring relationships appeared to provide an organisational mechanism to prompt supervisor and colleague interac...
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