Imposter Phenomena and Perfectionism: A Study from the Higher Education Students’ Mental Health Conditions
摘要
Using the Big Five Inventory and the Big Three Perfectionism Scale, the study sought to determine how the conditions of imposter syndrome and perfectionism relate to one another in the context of mental health issues among college students. The study used a quantitative approach, where two hundred students studying in Bangladesh and Germany were surveyed using simple randoResponseng (Response rate is 42%). MS Excel (V, 2007) and SPSS (V, 22) applications improved the data to execute and evaluate the proposed model. The study revealed that the imposter phenomena of higher education students have a positive significant impact on their Big Three Perfectionism Scale, and outcomes of imposter phenomena of higher education students have a negative insignificant effect on their Big Five personality scale. The results suggest that increased symptoms of dysfunctional aspects of perfectionism may contribute to large actors’ impostor propensities and could thus be deemed prospective predisposing and preserving aspects of the imposter syndromes.