Atlanta: Peachtree. The impostor phenomenon is an intense feeling of intellectual fraudulence experienced by many high-achieving individuals. Three studies received positive ratings for internal consistency. The psychometric properties of the clance impostor scale. The English and German CIPS were factor analyzed resulting in a three factor theoretically preferred model aligned to Clance's (1985) original conceptualization of the impostor phenomenon as Fake, Luck and Discount (Holmes et al., 1993; Chrisman et al., 1995; Brauer and Wolf, 2016). 7, 213–226. Correlational patterns and regression analyses supported the investigators' conceptualization of perceived fraudulence as involving a combination of fraudulent ideation, depressive tendencies, self-criticism, social anxiety, achievement pressures, and self-monitoring skills. Subsequently, of the remaining studies, the full-text papers were obtained and evaluated according to their relevance in meeting the stipulated inclusion/exclusion criteria. This highlighted an important point about improving accessibility to scale development and validation information. doi: 10.1111/1467-6494.00114, Leonhardt, M., Bechtoldt, M. N., and Rohrmann, S. (2017). doi: 10.1207/s15327752jpa5802_13. The reporting of means and standard deviation scores from the measure of interest for at least four relevant subgroups is stipulated for interpretability, in order to assign qualitative meaning to quantitative data (Terwee et al., 2007). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edn. The COSMIN checklist for assessing the methodological quality of studies on measurement properties of health status measurement instruments: an international Delphi study. Harvey's (1981) study was rated positively for content validity because item selection was driven by theoretical and therapeutic observations, and reported item analysis statistics. This review identified a gold standard measure is yet to be established and this has been limited by conceptual clarity around the dimensionality of the impostor phenomenon, its operationalization across measures, distributional properties across different groups (e.g., clinical samples, gender, age, cultures) and it's reproducibility. 102, 153–158. Assess. The definitions and criteria of adequacy for each psychometric property are displayed in Table 1. Currently, the developmental trajectory of the impostor phenomenon is unknown. doi: 10.1016/S0191-8869(00)00184-7. The 18 studies in the review sample did not examine repeated measures of the impostor phenomenon, therefore no information was available for agreement. The PRISMA statement for reporting systematic reviews and meta-analyses of studies that evaluate health care interventions: explanation and elaboration. 101, 314–317. Life Res. 6:e1000100. (2007) assert measures may be given many indeterminate or low ratings across measurement properties that are yet to be evaluated, especially if they are new questionnaires or due to less comprehensively reported validation studies. However, the authors have outlined different dimensions. Wanted: Self-doubting employees-Managers scoring positively on impostorism favor insecure employees in task delegation. Stronger impostorism feelings in working professionals are associated with lower levels of job satisfaction, lower organizational citizenship behaviors—discretionary actions that benefit colleagues and the organization—and higher continuance commitment, that is, higher perceived costs of leaving their organization (Vergauwe et al., 2015). Molinsky, A. Increasingly, impostorism research has expanded beyond clinical and into applied settings. Of the reviewed studies, four studies utilized two or more impostor phenomenon measures and reported correlation coefficients. This will enhance conceptual clarity and, the quality of scale development and validation studies.