Abstract
The mentorship experiences of recent clinical psychology doctorates reporting a primary mentor in graduate school were assessed by means of a survey. Among 518 responding psychologists, male graduates were significantly more likely to have a same‐gender mentor, and female graduates were more likely to report receiving support from mentors of both genders. Both male and female respondents who had cross‐gender mentors were significantly more likely to report attraction to the mentor, negative experiences related to the mentor's seductiveness, and difficulty terminating the mentorship than respondents with same‐gender mentors. These results call into question some common assumptions about mentorship gender pairing in graduate school and subsequent differences in both positive and negative relationship outcomes.
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