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Abstract:
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Academic Integrity is a serious issue facing academia. This research attempted to find relationships between academic integrity and the five factors of personality (neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness), an individual’s self-esteem, anxiety, depression, locus of control, self-control, and social desirability. The Academic Integrity Assessment assessed the participants’ level of academic dishonesty. The sample consisted of 211 college students. Eighty-six percent of participants admitted to cheating at least once within the past year. The results indicate that those with higher levels of academic dishonesty were lower in self-control and tested higher in neuroticism, openness, state anxiety, and depression. The results also indicate that those who reported lower academic dishonesty also reported more socially desirable responses. A regression analysis found that higher levels of openness and lower levels of seriousness of cheating and self-control predicted Academic Dishonesty. |
