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Table 1 Themes/Categories Identified in Interviews and Diaries

From: Understanding mentoring relationships between mentees, peer and senior mentors

Semi-structured Interviews

Mentoring Diaries

1. Stakeholders

â–ª Interactions between mentee, mentor, peer-mentor, and the host organization

2. Stages of Mentoring

â–ª Includes the pre-mentoring, initial research meetings, data gathering, review of initial findings, manuscript preparations and reflections stages,

3. Mentoring Relationships

▪ Characterizing mentoring relationships and its effects upon the mentee’s research, personal, academic and career considerations

4. The Ring Theory of Personhood

▪ Delineating shifts in the mentee’s Innate, Individual, Relational and Societal Rings brought on by dissonance, dyssynchrony, disharmony and resonance

1. Stakeholders

â–ª Interactions between mentee, mentor, peer-mentor, and the host organization

2. Mentoring Relationships

▪ Characterizing mentoring relationships and its effects upon the mentee’s research, personal, academic and career considerations