Investigating the Impact of impostor Phenomenon on Family-Work Conflict with Mediating Role of Perfectionism

Self-perception is a determinant factor in everyone’s personal and organizational success. One of the effective components that affect people’s self-perception is the Impostor Phenomenon which has multiple consequences on organizations and their staff. Hence investigating and identifying the consequences of Impostor Phenomenon is highly important. Accordingly in this research، the impact of impostor phenomenon on work and life conflict with mediating role of perfectionism has been investigated. In order to collect data، the employed students of Tehran University were chosen as the population and 250 questionnaires were distributed among them 176 of which were completed and returned to the researchers. The study results using the path analysis method show that The Impostor Phenomenon affects “negative perfectionism” directly and “family and work conflict” indirectly (􀈙= 0. 340). The results also show that there is no relationship between Impostor Phenomenon and “positive perfectionism”. It’s noted that “negative perfectionism” has the greatest effect (􀈙= 0. 517) on students’ “family and work conflict”.