Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3526/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Feeling like a fraud: The Impact of the Impostor Phenomenon on the Mental Health of Minoritized College Students (March 29, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116557 116557-21837561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

In this talk, Dr. Kevin Cokley will engage participants in a discussion around effectively confronting the impostor phenomenon. He will discuss how the impostor phenomenon is created, share clinical observations, and describe the impostor cycle. Next, he will discuss the nature of impostor feelings and its mental health implications. He will address how impostor feelings differ among minoritized individuals. He will end by providing individual and institutional strategies to combat impostor feelings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:51:34 -0500 2024-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Organizational Studies Program (OS) Lecture / Discussion Kevin Cokley
Narrative Alchemy: How Sharing Work with Children Shapes Parents' Narrative Identity Construction (April 12, 2024 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120078 120078-21844011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2024 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Organizational Studies Program (OS)

We conduct a qualitative, inductive study of working parents and their school-aged children to examine how parents co-construct work identity narratives with their children. Our analysis revealed that parents’ work orientations influenced how they share their work with their children (i.e., withholding, telling, showing, demonstrating, or involving), reinforcing or shaping their work identities. We find that when parents’ work holds a more central place in their identity, such as in the case of a “calling” as opposed to a “job,” parents engage in richer and more multifaceted forms of narrative sharing with their children. These unique sharing strategies preface particular narrative identity patterns, including identity diminishment, affirmation, enhancement, or expansion. Through bids for connection and understanding, parents who initially withheld their work narratives from their children (those with “jobs”) achieved self-enhancement as children sought and ascribed a more profound sense of meaning to their parents’ work. Parents who initially sought to affirm their identities through narrative (those with “callings”) achieved self-expansion by involving children in their work. Our proposed model describes a narrative alchemy that makes contributions to the narrative identity literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:39:33 -0400 2024-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 2024-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Organizational Studies Program (OS) Lecture / Discussion Theresa Glomb