Impostorism, Self-Efficacy, Perceived Stress and Anxiety in Medical House Officers
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https://doi.org/10.48047/HM.10.2.2024.1809-1820Keywords:
Impostorism, anxiety, self- efficacy, perceived stress, house officersAbstract
The Imposter Phenomenon is defined as the concern that one can be seen as intellectually “phony or fake” by others and its association to one’s self efficacy, perceived stress, and anxiety, requires the further research. Therefore, the study's goal is to investigate the connection between impostorism, self-efficacy, perceived stress, and anxiety among medical house officers. The study tested the following hypothesis: (a) There will be a positive relationship between impostorism, perceived stress and anxiety among Pakistani medical house officers. (b) There will be a negative relationship between self-efficacy and perceived stress among Pakistani medical house officers. (c) Impostorism will be a predictor of anxiety among Pakistani medical house officers. (d) The degree of impostorism, and anxiety among medical house officers will differ by gender. (e) Perceived stress will mediate the relationship between impostorism and anxiety. The sample of 150 medical house officers was included in the present study through the purposive sampling technique. The scale for Impostor Phenomenon (Clance, 1985), scale of general self-efficacy (Schwarzer & Jerusalem1995), perceived Stress scale (Cohen et al., 1983) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (Beck et al., 1993) were administered to measure impostorism, self-efficacy, perceived stress, and anxiety among medical house officers. The correlation analysis determined the relationship between impostorism, self-efficacy, perceived stress, and anxiety among medical house officers. T-test, multiple linear regression analysis and regression analysis for mediation was used in this study. The results showed a substantial positive relationship between impostorism and self-efficacy, and between perceived stress, anxiety and impostorism. The present research revealed that self-efficacy has significant negative relationship with perceived stress and anxiety. The findings also showed that impostorism and perceived stress positively predict the anxiety. Results of current study revealed that women house officers exhibited higher scores on impostorism compared to men house officers. Findings showed that there was insignificant mean difference of anxiety on gender of house officers. Mediation analysis was conducted to check either perceived stress will mediate the relationship between impostorism and anxiety. The findings revealed that impostorism and perceived stress positively predicted anxiety. More specifically impostorism has direct as well as indirect effect on anxiety.
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