Tutor Guiding Style’s Effect on College Student’s Growth

Abstract

In the course of college students' development, the tutor's guidance plays an important role. By introducing the theory of paternalistic leadership styles and taking the personal initiative as a moderator variable, this paper explored how the undergraduate tutor guiding style influence on college students' growth. The results show that: (1) Kind type guidance and virtue type guidance has positive influence on college students' growth; (2) Authoritarian type guidance style has negative influence on college students' growth; (3) and personal initiative moderate the relationship between kind type guidance and college students' growth.