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Residents' Interaction With Their College Living-Learning Peer Mentor: A Grounded Theory, Jonathan Wylie
Residents' Interaction With Their College Living-Learning Peer Mentor: A Grounded Theory, Jonathan Wylie
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This study used Strauss and Corbin's (1998) grounded theory model to describe and explain the stories of residents' interactions with their peer mentor, in a health, education, and human development living-learning community (LLC). The question answered in this study was: What is the impact of the interaction between a peer mentor and residents within a living-learning community? Two sub-questions were asked: (1) How does the peer mentor affect the living-learning community members academically? and (2) How does the peer mentor affect the living-learning community members socially?
The LLC had 43 residents, a resident director, an academic coordinator, and one peer …