Gender, race, and perceived similarity effects in developmental relationships: The moderating role of relationship duration

The authors examine the doctoral student-faculty advisor dyad as a developmental relationship and investigate how, gender, race, and perceived similarity are related to doctoral student perceptions, of mentoring received. They hypothesized that the relationship of similarity with mentoring received would he moderated h duration of the relationships Specifically, they expected that gender and race dissimilarity would lead it) less mentoring early in the relationship but that such effects would dissipate later in the relationship. Furthermore, the authors predicted that perceived similarity conceptualized as underlying similarity of attitudes, values, and belief would be more strongly related to outcomes for longer duration versus shorter duration dyads They round that, in general, duration of the relationship moderated the effects or gender similarity and perceived similarity on mentoring received, although the pattern of means was more complex than originally hypothesized. (C) 2002 Elsevir Science (USA).