ACADEMIC CHEATING IN HUNGARIAN HIGH SCHOOLS

• Authors: Orosz Gábor , Farkas Dávid

Title variants

HU

Csalás a középiskolában

• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this questionnaire study was to explore the effect of individual, situational, interpersonal and value-related factors on Hungarian high school students’ (N = 236, M = 96, F = 140) individual and collaborative self-reported cheating behavior. Furthermore, it was aimed to measure the impact of the examined variables on the grade point average (GPA). After the validation of the questionnaires, three variables had direct impact on individual cheating: a) attitudes towards cheating, b) guilt after cheating, and c) GPA. In the case of collaborative cheating five direct effects were found: a) attitudes towards cheating, b) GPA, c) intrinsic motivation concerning acquisition of knowledge, d) external motivation of regulation, and e) perceived group cohesion. In the case of both models either direct or indirect predictors of cheating were examined. These models can provide information concerning the role of previously identified individual and situational variables in the Hungarian educational and cultural context.

Keywords

EN

individual cheating; collaborative cheating; grade point average; guilt; competition; motivation; Hungary; high school

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Hungarian Association for Psychology
• Journal: Magyar Pszichologiai Szemle (Hungarian Psychological Review)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 605-630
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Orosz Gábor

author

Farkas Dávid