Academic dishonesty, personality traits and academic adjustment

• Main Authors: A.-M. CAZAN, C. IACOB
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Transilvania University of Brasov Publishing House 2017-12-01
• Series: Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov: Series VII: Social Sciences, Law
• Subjects: academic dishonesty; personality traits; academic adjustment; use of Internet
• Online Access: http://webbut.unitbv.ro/bulletin/Series%20VII/CPPETT/06_Cazan%20&%20Iacob.pdf

Many recent studies has been indicating that academic dishonesty is more frequent in higher education, under the form plagiarism, cheating on exams, and copying assignments from other students. The present research aims to explore the relationship of personality traits, academic dishonesty and academic adjustment. The results showed that conscientiousness, honesty and openness were significantly negatively related to reports of academic dishonesty. Academic neuroticism was the most powerful predictor of cheating behaviours, while an overall high level of maladjustment predicted the positive attitudes towards academic cheating. The significant associations between academic adjustment and academic dishonesty confirmed previous research in the field.