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Sara Sohr-Preston; Stefanie Boswell; Lauren Jordan; Shelby Morain – College Student Journal, 2022
This investigation examined whether academic entitlement (AE) and academic dishonesty (AD) increased significantly over the course of the first semester of university coursework. AE and AD were measured at three time points over students' first semester in university and examined for change. While both increased, only AE's increase was…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Students, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
Locus of Control, Academic Self-Concept, and Academic Dishonesty among High Ability College Students
Rinn, Anne N.; Boazman, Janette – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The purposes of the current study were to evaluate a measure of academic dishonesty and examine high ability college students' loci of control and its effect on behaviors of academic dishonesty, as moderated by academic self-concept. A total of 357 high ability college students enrolled at two universities in the southwestern United States took…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Self Concept, Academic Ability, Cheating
Sohr-Preston, Sara; Boswell, Stefanie S. – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Academic entitlement (AE) is a common source of frustration for college personnel. This investigation examined predictors (self-concept, academic dishonesty, locus of control, and family functioning) of AE in male and female college students. Academic dishonesty and the interaction between locus of control and family functioning significantly…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Self Concept

Forsyth, Donelson R.; And Others – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1985
The hypothesis that students who cheat will externalize the cause of this behavior was tested by contrasting the causal inferences of cheating and noncheating college students. Results supported Kelley's attributional model. Uninvolved observers also indicated that students tended to formulate self-serving attributions. (Author/BS)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Attribution Theory, Cheating, College Students

Antion, David L.; Michael, William B. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1983
An investigation of 148 community college students regarding cheating behaviors on a final multiple-choice test did not lend support for the association of personality constructs with cheating behaviors except for the anxiety construct. Self-reported grade point average and test score were negatively related to cheating. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Anxiety, Behavior Problems, Cheating