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    An impostor’s resistance : the protective role of critical consciousness from the mental health impacts of the impostor phenomenon
    (2019-08) Lanehurst, Ashley Nicole; Cokley, Kevin O. (Kevin O'Neal), 1969-; Sanchez, Delida; Whittaker, Tiffany A; Holme, Jennifer J
    Research in higher education continues to explore the complexity of challenges faced by students of color. One of these challenges is the impostor phenomenon which has been linked to psychological distress. Additionally, the literature has demonstrated that students who endorse low levels of academic self-efficacy and identify less with school, also exhibit lower levels of psychological well-being. This dissertation hoped to expand the literature on the impostor phenomenon by integrating a socio-cultural contextual layer which proposed that those individuals who experience higher degrees of psychological distress may endorse higher levels of social dominance orientation. Furthermore, the concept of critical consciousness was included as a possible opposing dynamic to social dominance and would result in higher levels of psychological well-being. This dissertation utilized a multiple group path analysis to clarify the relationships between the impostor phenomenon, academic self-efficacy, identification with school, social dominance, critical consciousness, and mental health among students of color and White students.