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Hongwei, Yu; Glanzer, Perry L.; Johnson, Byron R.; Sriram, Rishi; Moore, Brandon – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2017
Current research yields inconsistent findings about the association between religious variables and academic cheating among college students. In this study, we investigated possible reasons for this disagreement by examining whether, and to what extent, three particular religious variables: religious identity, affirmation of importance and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Ethics, Religious Factors, Beliefs
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Stiles, Beverly L.; Pan, Minqi; LaBeff, Emily E.; Wong, Newman – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this study was to provide a cross-cultural comparison between China and the United States of neutralization and academic entitlement on academic dishonesty, often referred to as college cheating. The sample consisted of 434 American Students and 180 Chinese students. Neutralization was a predictor of cheating in college for both the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethics, Cheating, Cross Cultural Studies
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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
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Lee, Jeesoo; Bong, Mimi; Kim, Sung-il – Educational Psychology, 2014
We tested the interaction between task value and self-efficacy on defensive pessimism, academic cheating, procrastination and self-handicapping among 574 Korean 11th graders in the context of English as a foreign language. We hypothesised that perceiving high value in tasks or domains for which self-efficacy was low would pose a threat to…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Task Analysis
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Morris, R. C. – Current Research in Social Psychology, 2012
Within sociological-social psychology values are an emerging topic of substantive interest. Building on identity theory this study tests the relative salience of values versus role-identities as a predictor of a student's participation in academic dishonesty. This study finds that for a general population of students values are a significant…
Descriptors: Social Psychology, Comparative Analysis, Student Role, Student Motivation
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Ntoumanis, Nikos; Taylor, Ian M.; Thogersen-Ntoumani, Cecilie – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Embedded in achievement goal theory (Ames, 1992; Meece, Anderman, & Anderman, 2006), this study examined how perceptions of coach and peer motivational climate in youth sport predicted moral attitudes, emotional well-being, and indices of behavioral investment in a sample of British adolescents competing in regional leagues. We adopted a…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Longitudinal Studies, Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries