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Improving Instructor-Student Relationship Quality Through Social Inclusion Intervention in Biomedical Sciences (Poster 8)

Sat, April 15, 9:50 to 11:20am CDT (9:50 to 11:20am CDT), Hyatt Regency Chicago, Floor: East Tower - Exhibit Level, Riverside West Exhibition Hall

Abstract

Despite numerous efforts, diversifying the biomedical research workforce remains an elusive goal, and large sectors of the U.S. population remain underrepresented. We examined the short-term impact of the Social Inclusion Intervention (SII) on promoting mentoring relationship quality among 567 biomedical major undergraduate students nested within 15 faculty. Multilevel modeling was applied to estimate the intervention effects on students’ perceptions of psychological similarity and mentoring quality before and after the intervention. The results revealed that there was an interaction effect between students’ initial psychological similarity and the SII effects (b = -0.36, SE = 0.12, p <.001). Further, male students reported higher mentoring quality with their instructors (b = 0.18, SE = 0.07, p = .01) compared to their female peers.

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