The Association between Familial and Parental Factors and the Impostor Phenomenon—A Systematic Review

Campus racial climate and impostor phenomenon among Black college students: The mediating roles of social anxiety and self-esteem.

“…prone to experience IP (Yaffe, 2023). As this study represents the first to examine the link between CRC and IP among students attending HBCUs, more work is warranted to determine the generalizability of our findings.…”

“…Expounding on our explanation above, the indirect association between CRC and IP for students attending HBCUs may be reflective of invalidating departmental and/or institutional climates that diverge from historical HBCU commitments to support Black students, which may not only create feelings of anxiety, but also subsequent devaluations of self, that contribute to IP. Indeed, socially anxious individuals are particularly sensitive to social cues of approval and rejection (Buckner et al, 2010), generally report lower levels of self-esteem relative to those with lower levels of social anxiety (Nordstrom et al, 2014), and are more prone to experience IP (Yaffe, 2023). As this study represents the first to examine the link between CRC and IP among students attending HBCUs, more work is warranted to determine the generalizability of our findings.…”

“…Furthermore, anxiety and self-esteem were modeled in this sequential fashion given their unique associations with IP (D. L. Bernard et al, 2020; Yaffe, 2023) and research suggesting that social anxiety may temporally precede self-esteem (Nordstrom et al, 2014). Two primary hypotheses guided the current work.…”