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. 2022 Dec 9;33(1):27–38. doi: 10.1007/s40670-022-01675-x

Table 1.

Student responses to a free multiple-choice question regarding experiences associated with impostor phenomenon. (Interpretation example: In this cohort, 77.0% of students indicated that they experienced “self-criticism”, and the correlation between this experience and a student’s total CIPS score had an r value of 0.37 (p < 0.001), indicating a weakly positive relationship)

Associated experience Percentage of students indicating this associated experience Correlation between experiencing this factor and total CIPS score
Perfectionism 61.3% 0.21*
Fear of success 5.8% 0.14
Fear of failure 83.2% 0.32**
Fear of negative evaluation 40.8% 0.27**
Self-criticism 77.0% 0.37**
Social anxiety 41.9% 0.30**
None of the above 5.8% −0.30**

*p < 0.01; **p < 0.001