Familial and personal characteristics profiles predict bias in academic competence and impostorism self-evaluations

Testing Cross-Lagged Associations between Conditional Parental Regard and Impostorism among Students from Elementary to Secondary School

“…In addition to the co-occurring associations between the two variables, for each year throughout the study, the perception of conditional parental regard at a given time systematically predicted impostorism the following year. These findings lend credence to authors proposing that the type of regard children perceived from their parents might be involved in the development and maintenance of youths' impostorism (Clance, 1985;Clance et al, 1995;Grays, 1992;Grenon et al, 2019;Harvey & Katz, 1985;Kolligian & Sternberg, 1991;Langford & Clance, 1993;Sakulku & Alexander, 2011).…”

“…Chayer et al (2015) reported that perceiving conditional parental regard at age 13 was significantly associated with a higher risk of having a sense of impostorism that persists over the five following years. In a follow-up study, Grenon et al (2019) found the perception of conditional parental regard to be part of a set of personal and parental characteristics associated with the presence of impostorism in youth aged 12 to 14 years. Finally, in a cross-sectional design with adolescents aged 12 to 17, Yaffe (2023) showed that the link between adolescents' reports of impostorism and their parents' authoritarian style was mediated by their perception of parental psychological control.…”

“…Today, impostorism is known to affect people of any gender and there is no consensus as to its relative importance in men and women. It has been observed among professionals in a variety of fields (Barr-Walker et al, 2019;Bravata et al, 2020;Vergauwe et al, 2015), is deemed common among college and university students (Parkman, 2016), as well as adolescents and even children (Al Lawati et al, 2023;Chayer & Bouffard, 2010;Cokley et al, 2018;Grenon et al, 2019). The definition of impostorism is mostly agreed upon among researchers and features personal experience of self-perceived intellectual phoniness, feeling of being overvalued by others, of deceiving them and the fear of being unmasked (Clance & Imes, 1978;Cokley et al, 2018;Harvey & Katz, 1985;Kolligian & Sternberg, 1991;Yaffe, 2020a).…”