Mak Karina K L, Kleitman Sabina, Abbott Maree J
School of Psychology, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Front Psychol. 2019 Apr 5;10:671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00671. eCollection 2019.
The impostor phenomenon is a pervasive psychological experience of perceived intellectual and professional fraudulence. It is not a diagnosable condition yet observed in clinical and normal populations. Increasingly, impostorism research has expanded beyond clinical and into applied settings. However, to date, a systematic review examining the methodological quality of impostorism measures used to conduct such research has yet to be carried out. This systematic review examines trait impostor phenomenon measures and evaluates their psychometric properties against a quality assessment framework. Systematic searches were carried out on six electronic databases, seeking original empirical studies examining the conceptualization, development, or validation of self-report impostor phenomenon scales. A subsequent review of reference lists also included two full-text dissertations. Predetermined inclusion and exclusion criteria were specified to select the final 18 studies in the review sample. Of the studies included, four measures of the impostor phenomenon were identified and their psychometric properties assessed against the quality appraisal tool-Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale, Harvey Impostor Scale, Perceived Fraudulence Scale, and Leary Impostor Scale. The findings often highlighted that studies did not necessarily report poor psychometric properties; rather an absence of data and stringent assessment criteria resulted in lower methodological ratings. Recommendations for future research are made to address the conceptual clarification of the construct's dimensionality, to improve future study quality and to enable better discrimination between measures.
冒名顶替现象是一种普遍存在的心理体验，即感觉自己在智力和专业方面存在欺骗行为。这不是一种在临床和正常人群中观察到的可诊断病症。越来越多的冒名顶替研究已从临床领域扩展到应用领域。然而，迄今为止，尚未对用于此类研究的冒名顶替测量方法的质量进行系统评价。本系统评价考察了特质冒名顶替现象测量方法，并根据质量评估框架评估了它们的心理测量特性。对六个电子数据库进行了系统检索，寻找检验自我报告冒名顶替现象量表的概念化、开发或验证的原始实证研究。随后对参考文献列表的审查还纳入了两篇全文论文。指定了预定的纳入和排除标准，以选择综述样本中的最终18项研究。在纳入的研究中，确定了四种冒名顶替现象测量方法，并根据质量评估工具——克兰斯冒名顶替现象量表、哈维冒名顶替量表、感知欺诈量表和利里冒名顶替量表评估了它们的心理测量特性。研究结果经常强调，研究不一定报告心理测量特性不佳；相反，缺乏数据和严格的评估标准导致方法学评分较低。针对未来研究提出了建议，以解决该构念维度的概念澄清问题，提高未来研究质量，并更好地区分不同的测量方法。
