Fatores explicativos à síndrome do impostor dos estudantes de contabilidade

Abstract

The objective of this work was to identify the factors that explain the impostor syndrome in Accounting students. The imposter syndrome was discovered after studies by researchers Clance and Imes in 1978, where they studied more than one hundred women who, although they had academic and professional success, considered themselves imposters because they believed that their success was thanks to their personality and social skills, creating a deceptive facade of intelligence. To carry out this study, documentary and questionnaire procedures applied to accounting science students from three federal universities in Brazil. The sample consisted of 355 students from the on-campus Accounting Science Course, who fully answered the questionnaire. As a data collection instrument, a questionnaire with questions about gender, age, semester and time of study was used. Questions about the imposter phenomenon were included in the questionnaire. The Doornik-Hansen Normality test, the KMO, Bartlett and Omega test of McDonald's, which is an alternative test to Cronbach's Alpha, were used as statistical procedures to obtain the results. After analyzing the data collected in this research, it was concluded that the gender factor was the only one that has a relationship with the imposter syndrome, therefore, male students have a lower level of imposter phenomenon compared to female students.