What Impostors Phenomenon and Fear of Success talk about Indian School Education?: An Empirical Study

Abstract

The present paper traces the status of impostors in school education in India. Moreover, the paper assesses the level of fear of success among the adolescents which creates undue pressure on the students to excel and compete with their peers. The sole objective of the school educational system has turned out to be job oriented as the numbers of quality educational institutions are very less which ensures better career prospects for the students. A group of n = 140 high school students were chosen for the current study. The variables like, family background, gender, educational level, age etc do have relationships with impostor phenomenon and fear of success. The results of the study justifies the scenario wherein high achievement in comprehensive examinations is directly proportionate to fear of success as the high achievers demonstrated different values than the low achievers. The results also indicate that the students with fear of success have equal ability to achieve academically as well as in non- academic tasks. Moreover, the impostors show direct relationship with fear of success. The study proposes the need of more intervention programs and a educational policies which ensures multi-dimensional counseling programs to meet all the attributes of success/ performance fearing individuals.

Keywords

• impostor phenomenon
• fear of success
• school education
• india
• regression analysis