Inspecting the Dangers of Feeling like a Fake: An Empirical Investigation of the Impostor Phenomenon in the World of Work

Neureiter, Mirjam; Traut‐Mattausch, Eva

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01445

Cited by 35 publications

(31 citation statements)

References 66 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…These results are in line with those found by Grubb Iii and McDowell (2012), Vergauwe et al (2015), Arkan (2016), and Neureiter and Traut-Mattausch (2016), in which people with higher levels of the IP tend to dedicate less time to activities or attitudes that transcend the formal academic role, given that the time employed in such actions could hinder the performance achieved in formal obligations and expose these individuals to the judgement of others.…”

Section: Cab1 Cab2 Cab3supporting

confidence: 91%

“…Similarly, Vergauwe et al (2015) identified a negative association between the IP and citizenship behaviors in Belgian business area professionals. Arkan (2016) and Neureiter and Traut-Mattausch (2016) collaborate the findings by verifying a negative relationship between the levels of impostor feelings and citizenship behaviors of employees in various sectors in Turkey and Austria.…”

Section: Establishment Of the Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Due to the non-normality of the data verified by the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test, by the histogram analysis, and by the normal Q-Q plot, in this study the non-parametric Spearman's correlation technique is used to verify TH 1 and TH 2 , which varies from -1 to 1, to indicate the association between two variables when the parametric test assumptions are not fulfilled (Field, 2009). The Spearman's correlation was chosen given that the study summarily addresses subjective variables, this technique having been used in the analyses of Grubb Iii and McDowell (2012), Vergauwe et al (2015), and Neureiter and Traut-Mattausch (2016).…”

Section: Id = Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Behold the best and worst of me: the impostor phenomenon and academic behavior in the business area,

Meurer

Costa

2020

Rev. contab. finanç.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the impostor phenomenon (IP) and the academic behavior of stricto sensu postgraduate students in business area courses. Discussing the relationship between psychological variables and student academic behavior is a topic of interest as empirical evidence indicates that these variables affect the environment in which scientific research is developed. It is important to look for elements that help in understanding the IP in order to reduce its impacts on the performance, behavior, and feelings of students. Postgraduate students enrolled in stricto sensu courses may be refusing opportunities to advance in their professional careers and adopting behaviors that are discordant with those desired by universities because they feel like impostors in terms of their abilities. Besides the relevance of the relationships analyzed, this research also uses the Meurer and Costa Scale of Academic Behaviors - Stricto Sensu (MCSAB-SS), which can measure academic behaviors displayed in Brazilian postgraduate courses, enabling the development of new investigations into the topic. The population includes postgraduates enrolled in 2018 in academic master’s, professional master’s, and academic doctorate courses in administration, accounting, and economics, known as the business area. The data collection was operationalized via a survey carried out online, which obtained 1,816 valid participations. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, and the Spearman’s correlation. Higher levels of impostor feelings are positively associated with displays of counterproductive academic behaviors and are mostly negatively associated with academic citizenship behaviors. After identifying the IP in students, actions to minimize these feelings can be implemented, given that postgraduate students with the IP may not be engaging in the activities that permeate stricto sensu, thus damaging the climate and culture of cooperation needed in academia.

show abstract

Section: Cab1 Cab2 Cab3supporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Establishment Of the Research Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Id = Identificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Behold the best and worst of me: the impostor phenomenon and academic behavior in the business area,

Meurer

Costa

2020

Rev. contab. finanç.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Although most of the studies were conducted in the USA 9, 10, 12, 13, 15-17, 21-32, 34-38, 42, 43, 45, 49-57, 61, 62, 64, 65, 67, 73 and Canada, 19,44,46,66,68 twenty-one studies evaluated populations in other countries including five in Austria, 39,[58][59][60]63 five in Australia/New Zealand, 20,31,70,71,74 four in Germany, 11,14,47,48,58 three in Iran, 33,40,41 two in the UK, 20,69 and one each in Belgium 72 and Korea. 73 Nearly all of the included studies were single-arm observational studies (Table 1).…”

Section: Study Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review

Bravata

Watts²,

Keefer³

et al. 2019

J GEN INTERN MED

316

284

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

BACKGROUND: Impostor syndrome is increasingly presented in the media and lay literature as a key behavioral health condition impairing professional performance and contributing to burnout. However, there is no published review of the evidence to guide the diagnosis or treatment of patients presenting with impostor syndrome. PURPOSE: To evaluate the evidence on the prevalence, predictors, comorbidities, and treatment of impostor syndrome. DATA SOURCES: Medline, Embase, and PsycINFO (January 1966 to May 2018) and bibliographies of retrieved articles. STUDY SELECTION: English-language reports of evaluations of the prevalence, predictors, comorbidities, or treatment of impostor syndrome. DATA EXTRACTION: Two independent investigators extracted data on study variables (e.g., study methodology, treatments provided); participant variables (e.g., demographics, professional setting); diagnostic tools used, outcome variables (e.g., workplace performance, reductions in comorbid conditions); and pre-defined quality variables (e.g., human subjects approval, response rates reported). DATA SYNTHESIS: In total, 62 studies of 14,161 participants met the inclusion criteria (half were published in the past 6 years). Prevalence rates of impostor syndrome varied widely from 9 to 82% largely depending on the screening tool and cutoff used to assess symptoms and were particularly high among ethnic minority groups. Impostor syndrome was common among both men and women and across a range of age groups (adolescents to late-stage professionals). Impostor syndrome is often comorbid with depression and anxiety and is associated with impaired job performance, job satisfaction, and burnout among various employee populations including clinicians. No published studies evaluated treatments for this condition. LIMITATIONS: Studies were heterogeneous; publication bias may be present. CONCLUSIONS: Clinicians and employers should be mindful of the prevalence of impostor syndrome among professional populations and take steps to assess for impostor feelings and common comorbidities. Future research should include evaluations of treatments to mitigate impostor symptoms and its common comorbidities.

show abstract

“…Career adaptability could help employees to synthesize their self-concepts into the collective organization, so they are motivated to take on off-duty activities on behalf of the organization. Another motivation to conduct OCBO is that adaptable employees have surplus capabilities and underused self-management resources to broaden task boundaries and engage in extra activities for their organization than those who have restricted career adaptability resources (Neureiter and Traut-Mattausch, 2016). Wang et al (2017) found that adaptable employees may expand task boundary and relational surroundings that facilitate the organization to better deal with change.…”

Section: Career Adaptability Task Performance and Organization-dirementioning

confidence: 99%

Transformational Leadership, Career Adaptability, and Work Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Task Variety

Lan

Chen

2020

Front. Psychol.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Career adaptability is a set of individual resources that benefit one's sustainable development in his/her lifelong careers, especially in today's turbulent environment. However, how to foster employees' career adaptability through managerial strategies and eventually contribute to organizations remains to be studied. Guided by the career construction theory, we posit a moderated mediation model that transformational leadership (TFL) could strengthen employees' career adaptability and further foster their task performance and organizationdirected citizenship behavior (OCBO), with task variety moderating the mediation effect. We conducted a three-wave survey with 558 supervisor-employee dyads to test the overall model. The results validated that career adaptability mediated the links between TFL and task performance as well as OCBO. Furthermore, the mediation effect was stronger for employees who had higher levels of task variety. In short, our study offers the groundwork to understand that employees' career adaptability can be activated by transformational leaders and is selfregulatory to benefit work behaviors in the task variety context. It enlightens organizations to cultivate employees' career adaptability in the way of TFL and job design, with the objective of promoting the sustainable development for both the employees and the organizations.

show abstract

Inspecting the Dangers of Feeling like a Fake: An Empirical Investigation of the Impostor Phenomenon in the World of Work

Cited by 35 publications

References 66 publications

Behold the best and worst of me: the impostor phenomenon and academic behavior in the business area,

Behold the best and worst of me: the impostor phenomenon and academic behavior in the business area,

Prevalence, Predictors, and Treatment of Impostor Syndrome: a Systematic Review

Transformational Leadership, Career Adaptability, and Work Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Task Variety

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About