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Insights into the complexity of the impostor phenomenon among trainees and professionals in STEM and medicine
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“In another review, Wang and Li (2023) found that 50–75% of doctoral students experienced elevated IP (Pervez et al., 2020; Lee et al., 2020).”
From Exploring relationships between self-compassion, impostor phenomenon, and mental health among doctoral students (2025) · cites this paper as Lee et al., 2020
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- Lee, H., Anderson, C. B., Yates, M. S., Chang, S., & Chakraverty, D.
- ORCID
- Lee, HwaYoung
- Venue
- Current Psychology
- Published
- 2020-09-30
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 5913-5924
- ISSN
- 1046-1310
- 1936-4733
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- 22
- References
- 5
- Language
- en
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- Washington State University (2017-2018)
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