Building a harmonious guidance relationship is a key element for improving the quality of graduate training. This study focuses on exploring the factors influencing the students’ satisfaction of supervisor-graduate student relationship, using the fuzzy setting comparative analysis method (fsQCA). A survey was conducted among 168 graduate students who were studying at universities in China. We included satisfaction of relationship as an outcome variable. The conditional variables include graduate students' professional interest, willingness to communicate with supervisors, supervisor characteristics, supervisor's scientific research support, supervisor's emotional support, and supervisor's employment support. Findings revealed a single factor is not necessary to influence satisfaction with the supervisor-student relationship. High satisfaction with the mentor-student relationship is the result of a combination of six elements. There are 8 paths to realization. Generally, it can be summarized into 4 types of models including strong professional interest and mentor traits externally and internally driven, strong mentor traits and emotional support externally driven, strong student willingness to communicate internally driven, high mentor support and strong willingness to communicate externally and internally motivated. The communication intention of the graduate students, the characteristics of the supervisor and the emotional support of the supervisor to the graduate students are the dominant conditional variables of the mentee relationship satisfaction. Professional interest of graduate students, scientific research support of tutors and employment support of tutors are auxiliary conditional variables that affect the satisfaction of mentee relationship. Based on this, the study puts forward specific suggestions from the individual factors of students and tutors.

Authors:
Xiaoyan Luo, Beihang University, China

About the Presenter(s)
Luo Xiaoyan is a doctoral candidate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beihang University, majoring in educational economics and management.

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