Abstract This cross-sectional study is based on the survey responses of 134 volunteer court-appointed advocates (M = 52.44 years) who have been assigned a foster youth in middle or high school. The study aimed to (1) explore advocates' life goals for foster youth, (2) validate a scale of informal mentoring practices by adapting scales of shared and non-shared agency, and (3) test a model by which generative concerns enhance advocates' commitment to the program and feelings of mutual warmth with foster youth through indirect associations with shared agency with foster youth. Results indicated that most advocates articulated educational goals as well as goals related to self-development and socioemotional skills. Two factors of shared agency and one factor of non-shared agency were found (i.e., coactivity with youth, support for youth, and directing youth). Generativity was also found to be indirectly associated to mentoring outcomes through coactivity with youth on their educational goals.

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与培养青年进行教育的生成和共享代理

摘要 这项横断面研究基于 134 名被分配到中学或高中的寄养青年的 134 名法院指定的志愿律师（M = 52.44 岁）的调查答复。该研究旨在（1）探索倡导者培养青年的人生目标，（2）通过调整共享和非共享机构的规模来验证非正式指导实践的规模，以及（3）测试生成性关注增强倡导者的模型' 通过与寄养青年的共同代理的间接联系，对计划的承诺和与寄养青年的相互温暖的感觉。结果表明，大多数倡导者阐明了教育目标以及与自我发展和社会情感技能相关的目标。发现了两个共享代理因素和一个非共享代理因素（即与青年的合作、对青年的支持、和指导青年）。还发现通过与青年就其教育目标进行合作，生成能力与指导结果间接相关。