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Effects of a brief self-compassion intervention for college students with impostor phenomenon
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The present study used a latent growth curve modeling approach to (a) examine the effectiveness of a brief self-compassion intervention on reducing impostor phenomenon, maladaptive perfectionism, and psychological distress and (b) explore who would benefit more from this intervention. A total of 227 college students at a large Midwest university were randomly assigned to participate in either a 4-week brief self-compassion intervention group or a nonintervention control group. Analyses of the effectiveness of the intervention suggested the brief self-compassion intervention had significant treatment effects for reducing impostor phenomenon and maladaptive perfectionism. Moreover, this study also examined whether participants with different levels of fear of self-compassion and core self-evaluation would report different levels of treatment effectiveness. Fear of self-compassion was found to be a significant moderator of the intervention effects in reducing maladaptive perfectionism and psychological distress. Specifically, participants in the intervention group with higher levels of fear of self-compassion reported a greater decline in both maladaptive perfectionism and psychological distress over time when compared to those with lower levels of fear of self-compassion. Core self-evaluation significantly moderated the effectiveness of this intervention in reducing participants' levels of impostor phenomenon and maladaptive perfectionism. Specifically, participants in the inte…
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“With strong theoretical links between IP, self-compassion, and mental health, there is a need for more research on the utility of a self-compassion framework to counteract the mental distress associated with IP among doctoral students (Patzak et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2023).”
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“Self-compassion is theoretically and empirically positioned as a counterbalance to the harsh self-evaluation embedded in IP, yet large-scale evidence in doctoral populations is limited.”
From Exploring relationships between self-compassion, impostor phenomenon, and mental health among doctoral students (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2023
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“Self-compassion is theoretically and empirically positioned as a counterbalance to the harsh self-evaluation embedded in IP, yet large-scale evidence in doctoral populations is limited.”
From Exploring relationships between self-compassion, impostor phenomenon, and mental health among doctoral students (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2023
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“The overall connection between IP and mental distress is not surprising, as feelings of self-doubt and the isolating fear of being discovered as an intellectual fraud are core components of IP (Bravata et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2023).”
From Exploring relationships between self-compassion, impostor phenomenon, and mental health among doctoral students (2025) · cites this paper as Liu et al., 2023
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“Therefore, self-compassion’s emphasis on common humanity may be particularly important in reducing loneliness (Liu et al., 2023).”
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Clarke, B. J., & Hartley, M. T. (2025) · Frontiers in Psychology · doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1669075 · Cited by 3
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- Authors
- Liu, S., Wei, M., & Russell, D.
- ORCID
- Liu, Shuyi
- Venue
- Journal of Counseling Psychology
- Published
- 2023-11
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 711-724
- ISSN
- 1939-2168
- 0022-0167
- Cited by
- 16
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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