Parental autonomy support and the impostor phenomenon: the mediation role of self-esteem in psychology students

The feeling of unworthiness experienced by individuals due to the large number of demands often brings feelings of high stress and can affect the individual's performance and productivity at work or in an academic context. By understanding this phenomenon, it is hoped that we can develop more effective interventions to help individuals who experience these feelings so they can maintain good mental health. This research aims to determine the role of parental autonomy support on the impostor phenomenon with self-esteem as a mediator in psychology students at Muhammadiyah University, Purwokerto. The hypothesis of this research is that the role of parental autonomy support on the impostor phenomenon in students is mediated by self-esteem. This research method is quantitative with accidental sampling. The number of participants was 278 psychology students at Muhammadiyah University, Purwokerto, Indonesia. The measuring instruments used in this research include the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS), the Perceived Parental Autonomy Support Scale (P-PASS), and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES). This research uses path analysis with p<0,001 results of 95,77% calculated jamovi program version 2.4.11.0 for windows. The results of this study show that parental autonomy support can affect the impostor phenomenon but through self-esteem which if the individual self-esteem is high tends to reduce the impostor phenomenon on the contrary if the individual self-esteem is low it tends to increase the risk of the impostor phenomenon. The conclusion of this research is that parental autonomy support plays a role in the impostor phenomenon with self-esteem as a complete mediator and has a big influence.