Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude

Skyes & Matza (1957) proposed that individuals tend to use neutralization to motivate their decisions to engage in deviant behaviors. This indicated that even though students have strong motivations not to cheat may do so anyway after employing neutralizing strategies. Hence, this study attempte...

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Main Authors: Chan, Ling Meng, Othman, Jamilah, Omar, Zoharah, Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
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Published: Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/1/ICYOUTH2013-15.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.650632019-01-17T01:17:01Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/ Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude Chan, Ling Meng Othman, Jamilah Omar, Zoharah Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva Skyes & Matza (1957) proposed that individuals tend to use neutralization to motivate their decisions to engage in deviant behaviors. This indicated that even though students have strong motivations not to cheat may do so anyway after employing neutralizing strategies. Hence, this study attempted to examine the role of neutralization in influencing students’ attitude towards academic dishonesty. Students tended to use neutralization technique in order to free themselves from feeling guilty in engaging academic dishonesty. This study employed 620 randomly selected students from 6 different academic institutions. Results supported that students who engaged in academic dishonesty differ significantly from those who did not engaged in this deviant behavior with respect to their tendency to neutralize cheating. Results showed that cheating and neutralization were positively correlated among male and female. Hence, it showed that nowadays there are not differences in neutralization between male and female as their attitudes not longer different with respect to their achievement goals and expectations. Through the finding, it showed that the use of neutralization techniques explained why students acknowledged that cheating is wrong but still chooses to do it anyway. Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/1/ICYOUTH2013-15.pdf Chan, Ling Meng and Othman, Jamilah and Omar, Zoharah and Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva (2013) Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude. In: International Conference on Youth 2013 (ICYOUTH 2013), 29-31 Oct. 2013, Mines Wellness Hotel, Sri Kembangan, Selangor. (pp. 1-8).
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description Skyes & Matza (1957) proposed that individuals tend to use neutralization to motivate their decisions to engage in deviant behaviors. This indicated that even though students have strong motivations not to cheat may do so anyway after employing neutralizing strategies. Hence, this study attempted to examine the role of neutralization in influencing students’ attitude towards academic dishonesty. Students tended to use neutralization technique in order to free themselves from feeling guilty in engaging academic dishonesty. This study employed 620 randomly selected students from 6 different academic institutions. Results supported that students who engaged in academic dishonesty differ significantly from those who did not engaged in this deviant behavior with respect to their tendency to neutralize cheating. Results showed that cheating and neutralization were positively correlated among male and female. Hence, it showed that nowadays there are not differences in neutralization between male and female as their attitudes not longer different with respect to their achievement goals and expectations. Through the finding, it showed that the use of neutralization techniques explained why students acknowledged that cheating is wrong but still chooses to do it anyway.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Chan, Ling Meng
Othman, Jamilah
Omar, Zoharah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
spellingShingle Chan, Ling Meng
Othman, Jamilah
Omar, Zoharah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
author_facet Chan, Ling Meng
Othman, Jamilah
Omar, Zoharah
Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
author_sort Chan, Ling Meng
title Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
title_short Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
title_full Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
title_fullStr Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
title_full_unstemmed Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
title_sort academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude
publisher Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 2013
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/1/ICYOUTH2013-15.pdf
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