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What contributes to college student cheating? A study of individual factors
Ethics & Behavior (2017)
  • Rishi Sriram
Abstract
To better understand the multiple individual factors that contribute to college cheating, we undertook a multivariate analysis of a national sample of 2,503 college students. Our findings indicated that demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, socioeconomic status, and year in college), character qualities (e.g., lack of self-control, others-oriented life purpose), college experience (e.g., academic preparation, extracurricular activities involvement, and working), and student perceptions and attitudes (e.g., attitude toward academic cheating, perception of faculty’s actions against cheating and cheating environment) are all significantly associated with academic cheating.
Keywords
  • college students,
  • cheating,
  • academic dishonesty
Publication Date
2017
DOI
10.1080/10508422.2016.1169535
Citation Information
Rishi Sriram. "What contributes to college student cheating? A study of individual factors" Ethics & Behavior Vol. 27 Iss. 5 (2017) p. 401 - 422 ISSN: 1050-8422
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rishi_sriram/42/