Personality Traits, Impostor Phenomenon, and Workplace Bullying: A Cross-Sectional Study on Hospital Nurses

Higher levels of neuroticism were found significantly associated with both impostor phenomenon severity and experience of workplace bullying. Preventing workplace bullying and mitigating victimization require awareness of neuroticism in nurses and intervention strategies able to mitigate both the impostor phenomenon and neuroticism. Workplace bullying prevention policies should direct nursing leadership and management to develop and implement educational and intervention programs to help hospital nurses recognize their own personality traits and address their maladaptive impostor phenomenon proactively.