ABSTRACT

Academic dishonesty has serious consequences for human lives, social values, and economy. The main aim of the study was to explore a model of relations between personal and cultural variables and academic dishonesty. The participants in the study were N = 2,586 individuals from nine countries (Pakistan, Israel, Italy, India, the USA, Peru, Romania, Ghana, and Poland). The authors administered the Academic Dishonesty Scale to measure academic dishonesty, the Kessler Psychological Distress Scale to measure distress, the Almost Perfect Scale – Revised to measure perfectionism, the Brief Self-Control Scale to measure self-control, and the Singelis Scale to measure independent self-construal. The results showed that the theoretical model was well fitted to the dataset in six countries: Pakistan, the United States, Romania, Ghana, Israel, and Poland. However, it was not well fitted in Italy, India, and Peru. Our results also showed that perfectionism significantly predicted academic dishonesty, but not in all countries. Self-control significantly predicted cheating, falsification, and plagiarism in the USA. Moreover, we found that distress was related to cheating o0nly in Ghana. Finally, independent self-construal predicted academic dishonesty. Our findings provide a cross-cultural contribution to the debate on academic dishonesty by highlighting its significant predictors and may inform interventions aimed at eliminating it. Our results can be used in preventing and curbing academic dishonesty. Knowledge on cross-cultural differences can be useful in international education for example, as an indicator accepting or relaxing attitude toward academic dishonesty in students from different countries.

摘要

学术不诚实对人类生活、社会价值观和经济造成严重后果。该研究的主要目的是探索个人和文化变量与学术不诚实之间的关系模型。该研究的参与者为N= 来自九个国家（巴基斯坦、以色列、意大利、印度、美国、秘鲁、罗马尼亚、加纳和波兰）的 2,586 人。作者使用学术不诚实量表来衡量学术不诚实，凯斯勒心理困扰量表来衡量痛苦，几乎完美量表 - 修订以衡量完美主义，简短自我控制量表来衡量自我控制，辛格利斯量表来衡量独立自我建构。结果表明，该理论模型很好地拟合了六个国家的数据集：巴基斯坦、美国、罗马尼亚、加纳、以色列和波兰。然而，它在意大利、印度和秘鲁并不适合。我们的研究结果还表明，完美主义显着预测了学术不诚实，但并非在所有国家都如此。自我控制显着预测了作弊、伪造、和抄袭在美国。此外，我们发现痛苦仅与加纳的作弊有关。最后，独立的自我解释预测了学术不诚实。我们的研究结果通过突出其重要的预测因素，为关于学术不诚实的辩论提供了跨文化的贡献，并可能为旨在消除它的干预措施提供信息。我们的结果可用于预防和遏制学术不诚实行为。例如，关于跨文化差异的知识在国际教育中可能很有用，可以作为接受或放松对来自不同国家的学生的学术不诚实态度的指标。我们的研究结果通过突出其重要的预测因素，为关于学术不诚实的辩论提供了跨文化的贡献，并可能为旨在消除它的干预措施提供信息。我们的结果可用于预防和遏制学术不诚实行为。例如，关于跨文化差异的知识在国际教育中可能很有用，可以作为接受或放松对来自不同国家的学生的学术不诚实态度的指标。我们的研究结果通过突出其重要的预测因素，为关于学术不诚实的辩论提供了跨文化的贡献，并可能为旨在消除它的干预措施提供信息。我们的结果可用于预防和遏制学术不诚实行为。例如，关于跨文化差异的知识在国际教育中可能很有用，可以作为接受或放松对来自不同国家的学生的学术不诚实态度的指标。