Demographic Factors as Correlates to Graduate Students' Experience of the Impostor Phenomenon at a Historically Black University in the Mid-South

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Abstract

Many graduate students, have and are suffering from a mindset that questions their belonging in graduate programs. Some have argued that this mental plague is hindering many from finishing their degree program. This questioning is called Impostor Phenomenon (IP). The purpose of this correlational descriptive study was to explore the relationship between graduate students’ sense of Impostor Phenomenon and selected demographic variables, such as gender, race, GPA, major, family arrangement and first-generation college status at a Historical Black University in the mid-south.

Authors

• Lucian Yates, Simmons College of Kentucky

• Pamela T. Barber-Freeman, Prairie View A&M University

• Eleni Coukos Elder, Tennessee State University

• Jerrel Moore, Prairie View A&M University

• Mathias R. Vairez, Prairie View A&M University

• Stashia L Emanuel, Tennessee State University

• Alex Sekwat, Tennessee State University