Cheating by university students and its relationship to Dark Personality
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Abstract
Cheating by university students when taking academic tests has been considered an endemic problem in the university community. The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between academic fraud and dark personality traits, moral disengagement, and antisocial behavior in university students. To this end, Gardner and Melvin's ATC scale, one of the most widely used scales for identifying cheating, was adapted for use with Spanish population. This adaptation revealed a unidimensional structure and satisfactory reliability. An incidental sample of 912 adult participants was used for the study. After applying descriptive statistical techniques, factor analysis, and linear regression analysis, the results showed that the majority of participants had engage in cheating (62% versus 38%). The cheating variable correlates significantly with the four dark personality traits and with moral disengagement, and can be predicted from two dark personality traits (positive scores in machiavellianism and negative scores in sadism), and by the moral disengagement variable. In addition, cheating behavior is not related to so-called antisocial behaviors. The results and their relationship with the education system are discussed, and future lines of research are established.
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