Our current research investigated how mentors enhance protégé self‐efficacy. Drawing from social comparison theory, we propose that the shared experience between mentors and protégés facilitates the ability of protégés to adopt the perspective of their mentors. Additionally, the perspective‐taking that a protégé engages in enables them to ascribe positive aspects of their mentor (i.e., efficacious beliefs) to themselves. Study 1 (N = 205 adults) and study 2 (N = 204 adults) adopted an experimental design (i.e., vignette study) and study 3 (N = 148 undergraduate management students) adopted a survey design with protégés in an e‐mentoring program. Results from all three studies provided evidence for the transfer of efficacy beliefs from the mentor to the protégé. The findings supported the postulation that shared experience between the protégé and mentor facilitates perspective‐taking on behalf of the protégé. Although the findings of the experimental studies showed that a protégé’s perspective‐taking moderated the positive transfer of efficacy beliefs from the mentor to the protégé, the field study failed to replicate this particular finding. Our current research findings have implications for training and developing employees.

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指导二人组中指导者和门徒之间自我效能交叉的调查

我们目前的研究调查了导师如何提高门徒的自我效能感。借鉴社会比较理论，我们建议导师和门徒之间的共享经验促进门徒采纳导师观点的能力。此外，门徒参与的观点采择使他们能够将导师的积极方面（即有效的信念）归因于自己。研究 1（N = 205 名成人）和研究 2（N = 204 名成人）采用了实验设计（即小插曲研究），研究 3（N = 148 名本科管理专业学生）在电子指导计划中采用了与门生一起的调查设计. 所有三项研究的结果都为功效信念从导师转移到门徒提供了证据。调查结果支持这样的假设，即门徒和导师之间的共享经验有助于代表门徒采取观点。尽管实验研究的结果表明，门徒的观点采择调节了功效信念从导师到门徒的积极转移，但实地研究未能复制这一特定发现。我们目前的研究结果对培训和发展员工具有重要意义。