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Impostorism: An evolutionary concept analysis.

Jennifer M Barrow¹

¹Department of Undergraduate Nursing, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana.

|November 1, 2018

Summary

This summary is machine-generated.

Impostorism, characterized by fear of failure and difficulty accepting praise, is defined as a subjective, inaccurate self-assessment despite success. Further research is needed on impostorism in the nursing workplace.

Keywords:

concept analysis education professional issues workforce

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Area of Science:

Nursing
Psychology
Sociology

Background:

Impostorism is not well-defined or studied within the nursing profession.
Connections between new graduate role transition stress and impostorism remain unexplored.
Nursing students report experiencing impostorism during their undergraduate studies.

Purpose of the Study:

To explore the concept of impostorism.
To define impostorism within the context of nursing and other disciplines.

Main Methods:

Rodgers' evolutionary concept analysis.
Comprehensive literature search across 10 major databases.
Inclusion of nursing-specific and stratified random samples of non-nursing citations, plus purposive sampling of seminal works.

Main Results:

Key attributes of impostorism include fear of failure and difficulty accepting praise.
Antecedents encompass personality, attribution, family, workplace, and sociodemographic factors.
A conceptual definition of impostorism emerged: a subjective, inaccurate self-assessment of incompetence and fraudulence despite external evidence of success.

Conclusions:

Impostorism has evolved across disciplines, but requires further investigation in nursing.
More research is needed on nurses' workplace experiences with impostorism.