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CORRECTION article

Front. Psychol., 23 September 2025

Sec. Quantitative Psychology and Measurement

Volume 16 - 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1692257

Correction: Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

This article is a correction to:

  1. An Inner Barrier to Career Development: Preconditions of the Impostor Phenomenon and Consequences for Career Development

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Max P. Jansen, Max P. Jansen1,2*
  • 1Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2Institute for Social Research (IfS), Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

A Correction on
Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys

by Jansen, M. P. (2024). Front. Psychol. 15:1358279. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1358279

Leonhardt et al., 2025 was not cited in the article. The citation has now been inserted in section “4 IPSS-3: a universally applicable IP instrument”, paragraph 1 and should read:

“A preliminary short version of the original ISCQ called ISCQ-5 (ISF-K; Leonhardt et al., 2025) was chosen as the base instrument for developing the IPSS-3 since it is comparably short and recently developed. Furthermore, it is designed based on a scale with a unidimensional factor structure and shows a highly positive correlation with another established IP scale (CIPS).”

The complete reference can be found below:

Leonhardt, M., Klug, K., Kamsties, N., and Rohrmann, S. (2025). Kurzversion des impostor-selbstkonzept-fragebogens (ISF-K): entwicklung und validierung eines ökonomischen inventars zur erfassung des impostor-phänomens. Diagnostica. doi: 10.1026/0012-1924/a000349

The original version of this article has been updated.

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Keywords: impostor phenomenon, short scale, large-scale surveys, longitudinal research, social identity, social context

Citation: Jansen MP (2025) Correction: Impostor phenomenon short scale (IPSS-3): a novel measure to capture impostor feelings in large-scale and longitudinal surveys. Front. Psychol. 16:1692257. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1692257

Received: 25 August 2025; Accepted: 08 September 2025;
Published: 23 September 2025.

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