ERIC Number: EJ1367600
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Feb
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
The Correlation of Honesty-Humility and Learning Goals with Academic Cheating
Reinhardt, Nina; Trnka, Lina-Marie; Reinhard, Marc-André
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v26 n1 p211-226 Feb 2023
Academic cheating is a problem that affects many educational institutions and has become increasingly significant with the new challenges of online education. Recent studies have found that learning goals are correlated with cheating behavior among students. In this study, we investigated whether learning goals are still a predictor of cheating behavior when controlling for students' Honesty-Humility (emanated from the HEXACO model of personality) within a sample of 311 German university students. Regrading students' learning goals, we assessed their learning approach, performance approach, performance avoidance, and work avoidance. The result shows an intermediate negative and highly significant association between Honesty-Humility and academic cheating. Learning goals did not explain any incremental variance in academic cheating that goes beyond the Honesty-Humility factor. As the only exception, the work avoidance goal was found to also predict cheating behavior, but this positive association seems to be not as strong as the negative correlation between Honesty-Humility and academic cheating. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results and make recommendations for future research.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Ethics, Emotional Response, Personality Traits, Cheating, Academic Aspiration, Predictor Variables, Educational Objectives, Goal Orientation, Cognitive Style
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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