A SÍNDROME DO IMPOSTOR E O DIREITO À SAÚDE MENTAL: UM ESTUDO COM DISCENTES DE DIREITO

Abstract

All individuals receive the full protection of Mental Health Right. It is particularly important to protect the mental health of law students throughout higher education so they can concentrate on their studies, complete their graduation with excellence and find a job with mandatory requirements to ensure the progress of law in Brazil. So, it is necessary to verify whether the aforementioned basic right is being fully guaranteed to students of the Law course at the Federal University of Paraíba - Campus I - João Pessoa. This verification was by the application of two scales, which are: CIPS Scale – Clance Imposter Phenomenon Scale, and DASS-21 Scale (reduced version) – Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale. The methodology is hypothetical deductive and the research is correlational. The Impostor Syndrome, measured by the CIPS scale, deals precisely with discrediting one's own intellectual capacity, a factor usually linked to problems such as depression, anxiety and stress, the reason to joint application of the DASS 21 scale (short version). Through the obtained results, it is concluded, therefore, that 211 respondents (92.58%), which are part of the moderate, high and more high levels, suffer the influence of the Impostor Syndrome during higher education. For the present study, 151 students (66.23%) have the Impostor Syndrome, a factor that indicates a high and more high level of the presence of the syndrome. So, most are female, between 20 and 24 years old and in their first or fifth year of the course. The average score observed for the Impostor Syndrome was 65.60 (high level). In addition, positive and statistically significant correlations were observed between the Impostor Syndrome and the three factors (anxiety, depression and stress). Therefore, such findings serve to show that Mental Health Right is not being guaranteed in integrity to students of the Law course at the Federal University of Paraíba - Campus I - João Pessoa during higher education. In this way, public politicsfocused on mental health, developed and integrated by health managers, are advised to be able to create a positive learning environment in which the emotional well-being of students is prioritized, reducing the incidence of the Impostor Syndrome, as well as to distance the possibility of involvement of any illnesses and mental disorders.