Compassion Fatigue and Psychological Resilience Among Mentors of a Mentoring Program at a Private School in a Highly Urbanized City in Negros Island Region

Mentoring has been recognized as essential for professional and personal development, yet mentors often experience compassion fatigue due to emotional demands in educational settings. Employing a quantitative descriptive-correlational approach, the study to determine the levels of compassion fatigue and psychological resilience of 67 mentors of a mentoring program at a private school in a highly urbanized city in the Negros Island Region, Philippines, when they were taken as a whole and when they were demographically grouped by sex, age, marital status, and years of service. The findings showed that mentors generally had moderate compassion fatigue and normal psychological resilience, with no notable differences based on demographics. Moreover, the study found a significant negative correlation between compassion fatigue and psychological resilience, indicating that higher resilience corresponded to lower fatigue. These results underscore those professional roles, more than personal demographics, mainly influence emotional well-being and emphasize the need for resilience-building to reduce compassion fatigue. The study’s outcomes may guide mentors, teachers, school administrators, and researchers in enhancing mentor well-being, improving mentoring quality, and informing future studies on mental health and support systems in educational settings.