ABSTRACT

The Effects of Mentoring Program by Professer on Adaptation to Campus Life and Satisfaction for University Students

Jeong, Chae-Rin
Advisor : Prof. Choi, Seong-Woo, M.D., Ph.D
Department of Public Health,
Graduate School of Health Science,
Chosun University

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate how the mentoring program for college students who are in the transitional period to adulthood affect their adaptation to and satisfaction with campus life.

Method: Based on previous theses, this researcher conducted a questionnaire survey with 362 students at department of radiology of college of public health located at G city, who had participated in mentoring program from Mar. 5 to Jun. 21, 2013. Out of 362 questionnaire copies, 315 copies were collected. The mentoring program comprised mentoring functions and reliability of mentoring. The mentoring functions consisted of career development function, psychosocial function, role-model function, and tailored human-resource raising function. The result factors were adaptation to campus life and satisfaction with campus life. The collected questionnaire data were analyzed by SPSS 19.0 for window, a statistical application.

Result: According to the study result, the factors affecting adaptation to campus life were reliability of mentors and mentoring functions, and more specifically in terms of the mentoring functions, career development function and tailored human-resource raising function gave statistically significant effects on the adaptation. And the students'' satisfaction with campus life was significantly affected by whether or not they joined a club, the number of participation into mentoring program per semester, reliability of mentors and mentoring functions. More specifically in terms of the mentoring functions, career development function and tailored human-resource raising function gave statistically significant effects on the satisfaction.

Conclusion: In this study, the effect of mentoring program for college students on their adaptation to and satisfaction with campus life was examined. It is considered that the study results will be used as a fundamental material to research mentoring for college and university students, and will be implemental in using and developing mentoring program as a direct way of preventing the student''s dropout. Also it is expected that mentoring program helps college and university students in the transitional period to adulthood experience mentoring before they work at society, therefore playing a positive role for their successful work life as they get employed.