I have a hunch that impostor syndrome is also a symptom of poor / unempathetic* management - while the implication that there might be something 'wrong' with the individual may or may not be true, I would not be surprised if impostor syndrome could be partially accounted for by a difference in how people process and express prosocial cues.
*unempathetic in the scientific sense; of not being able to fully comprehend how and why a person is thinking and feeling the way they do.
Also, it is probably more important to tell people that personality is malleable and can change - this seems to be one of the root causes of resiliency (C. Dweck et al., 2014).
I've always had impostor syndrome in my professional life regardless of management. Even in situations where there's a pretty constant stream of affirmation it's hard to completely get rid of that feeling.
I'll agree that in workplaces where the management mood is more dour that it didn't help at all, but it was never the root cause of it.
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I have a hunch that impostor syndrome is also a symptom of poor / unempathetic* management - while the implication that there might be something 'wrong' with the individual may or may not be true, I would not be surprised if impostor syndrome could be partially accounted for by a difference in how people process and express prosocial cues.
*unempathetic in the scientific sense; of not being able to fully comprehend how and why a person is thinking and feeling the way they do.
Also, it is probably more important to tell people that personality is malleable and can change - this seems to be one of the root causes of resiliency (C. Dweck et al., 2014).
Perhaps sometimes, but not always.
I've always had impostor syndrome in my professional life regardless of management. Even in situations where there's a pretty constant stream of affirmation it's hard to completely get rid of that feeling.
I'll agree that in workplaces where the management mood is more dour that it didn't help at all, but it was never the root cause of it.