Academic dishonesty among undergraduates: the role of neutralization attitude

• Main Authors: Chan, Ling Meng, Othman, Jamilah, Omar, Zoharah, Alby, Jeffrey Lawrence D'Silva
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: Institute for Social Science Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia 2013
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/1/ICYOUTH2013-15.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/65063/
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

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...