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Behold the best and worst of me: the impostor phenomenon and academic behavior in the business area,

Meurer, Alison Martins, Costa, Flaviano·2020·Revista Contabilidade & Finanças
DOI 10.1590/1808-057x201910370
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ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the impostor phenomenon (IP) and the academic behavior of stricto sensu postgraduate students in business area courses. Discussing the relationship between psychological variables and student academic behavior is a topic of interest as empirical evidence indicates that these variables affect the environment in which scientific research is developed. It is important to look for elements that help in understanding the IP in order to reduce its impacts on the performance, behavior, and feelings of students. Postgraduate students enrolled in stricto sensu courses may be refusing opportunities to advance in their professional careers and adopting behaviors that are discordant with those desired by universities because they feel like impostors in terms of their abilities. Besides the relevance of the relationships analyzed, this research also uses the Meurer and Costa Scale of Academic Behaviors - Stricto Sensu (MCSAB-SS), which can measure academic behaviors displayed in Brazilian postgraduate courses, enabling the development of new investigations into the topic. The population includes postgraduates enrolled in 2018 in academic master’s, professional master’s, and academic doctorate courses in administration, accounting, and economics, known as the business area. The data collection was operationalized via a survey carried out online, which obtained 1,816 valid participations. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, and the Spearman’s correlation. Higher levels of impostor feelings are positively associated with displays of counterproductive academic behaviors and are mostly negatively associated with academic citizenship behaviors. After identifying the IP in students, actions to minimize these feelings can be implemented, given that postgraduate students with the IP may not be engaging in the activities that permeate stricto sensu, thus damaging the climate and culture of cooperation needed in academia.

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Authors
Meurer, A. M., & Costa, F.
Affiliations
  • Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil; Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Brazil
  • Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
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Venue
Revista Contabilidade & Finanças
Publisher
FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
Published
2020-08
Volume
31
Issue
83
Pages
348-363
ISSN
  • 1808-057X
  • 1519-7077
DOI
10.1590/1808-057x201910370
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