This study examined factors related to perceived barriers to gaining a mentor. Women reported more such barriers than men. In addition, individuals lacking previous experience as proégés reported greater barriers to obtaining a mentor than experienced protégés. Theoretical implications are discussed.

The article discusses a study which investigated the extent to which locus of control and anxiety level can be modified by a stress management intervention. This study intended to provide additional support to the efficacy of short term, cognitive-behavior intervention programs for anxiety reduction. The sustaining effects of such interventions during real-life stressful events were demonstrated. The experimental treatment failed to promote significant increases in internality (locus of control). The intervention was designed to enhance the subjects' expectations of control over their lives and responses to life events that they perceived as threatening. It failed to influence the more enduring aspects of individual beliefs about control over reinforcers of life events.

Employing a national sample of 1,162 employees, the authors examined the relationship between job and career attitudes and the presence of a mentor, the mentor's type (formal or informal), the quality of the mentoring relationship, and the perceived effectiveness and design of a formal mentoring program. Satisfaction with a mentoring relationship had a stronger impact on attitudes than the presence of a mentor, whether the relationship was formal or informal, or the design of a formal mentoring program.