PRODUCING MENTORS IN PSYCHOLOGY

This study was designed to identify doctoral Programs in psychology th at Produced the most mentors and to assess the quality of these progra ms as rated in past research. Mentor was defined as dissertation super visor. Samples of doctoral recipients were selected from the 1970, 198 0, and 1989-1991 Dissertation Abstracts International. We selected eve ry 10th entry for a total of 875 recipients, for whom 851 dissertation supervisors were identified. The programs producing the supervisors a nd the supervisors' years of graduation were also identified. The 25 p rograms producing the most supervisors accounted for almost 60% of the recipients. These programs tended to be among the oldest in American Psychology and among the programs rated highest in quality in studies reported over many years and using various measures of duality. The pr oportion of women among mentors increased but not as rapidly as the pr oportion of women among doctoral recipients.