Mentoring is defined, an off-line help by an individual to another person in making significant transitions

in work, knowledge or thinking. This mentoring programs aims to help the freshmen overcome the
adversities that college life adjustment brings (Araño & Panganiban, 2006). In light with the increasing
popularity of mentoring during the past decades, the researchers conducted this study to find out
whether the mentoring program provided for the freshmen college students at FAITH has a positive
effect on the students’ Adversity Quotient®. The researchers came up with the idea of conducting the
present study because of the fact that students are faced with conflicting demands and pressures from
school, from their parents, from their peer group, and from the society (Corey, 2004). For freshmen
students, all of these demands are present plus the fact that they are experiencing the hardships of
college life adjustments. In this regard, the researchers thought o