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标题：Personality and Academic Dishonesty. Evidence from an Exploratory Pilot Study
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作者：Dan Florin STĂNESCU ; Elena Mădălina IORGA
期刊名称：The Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations = Revista Română de Comunicare şi Relaţii Publice
印刷版ISSN：1454-8100
出版年度：2013
卷号：15
期号：1
出版社：National School of Political Studies and Public Administration
摘要：The study seeks to investigate the extent to which students at a public university in Bucharest engage in unethical behaviour within the academic environment such as fraudulence, plagiarism, falsification, delin- quency, unauthorized help etc., depending on their personality. This study was conducted using a survey method of 252 students at graduate and post-graduate level. The findings indicate that personality traits such as conscientiousness are significantly and negatively correlated with unethical behavior in the case of uni- versity students (r=-.281, p<.01 with plagiarism; r=-.250, p<.01 with fraudulation; r=-.233, p<.01 with mis- conduct; r=-.217, p<.01 with unauthorized help). Similarly, neuroticism is significantly associated with plagiarism (r=.214, p<.01), fraudulation (r=.163, p<.01) and misconduct (r=.156, p<.05). Significant differ- ences regarding falsification are also observed between graduate and postgraduate students (t(250)=-2.075, p<.05). This research provides some valuable insights on allowing educational institutions and those direct- ly involved in the educational process, to develop relevant policies and guidelines on matters pertaining to academic conduct.
关键词：academic ethics; personality; NEO-PI-R; cheating; unethical behavior.