Outcomes of a Comentoring Project: Inspiration and Admiration

Abstract

A comentoring project paired students in a lifespan developmental psychology course with older adults to conduct a life review. The intergenerational paring was designed to increase students' knowledge of older adults, the aging process, and development across the lifespan. Students developed a paper that included their partner's life history, a developmental analysis, and a personal reflection. The results of an exploratory qualitative analysis of students' personal reflections revealed salient themes, such as introspection, and themes not previously reported in the literature including inspiration, admiration, and role modeling by the older adults.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Mark Price and Marie Westerheide for their assistance with data analysis. Also, thanks to Paul Roodin, PhD and Jack Barrett, PhD for their prepublication review of this article.

Notes

Note: X indicates theme not present during this semester.