Investigating The Relationship Between Moral disengagement, Moral Identity, and Honesty-Humility with Academic Dishonesty

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 M.A. in Educational Psychology, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology. Faculty of Literature and Humanities. Urmia University, Urmia, Iran

Abstract


Objective: The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between moral disengagement, moral identity, and honesty-humility with academic dishonesty in high school students.
Methods: The research method was descriptive and the research design was correlational. The statistical population consisted of all high school students of Urmia Secondary School in the academic year 2019-2020, including 388 students (203 boys and 185 girls) selected by multistage cluster random sampling method. To collect data, questionnaires of moral disengagement, moral identity, hexaco and academic dishonesty were used. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis.
Results: The findings showed that there was a significant positive relationship between moral disengagement and its components (except diffusion of responsibility & attribution of blame) with academic dishonesty. There is a significant negative relationship between moral identity and its Internalization component with academic dishonesty. There was also a significant negative relationship between honesty-humility with academic dishonesty. The results of regression analysis showed that moral disengagement, moral identity and honesty-humility were able to predict percent 38 of the variance of academic dishonesty.
Conclusion: Therefore, it can be concluded that moral disengagement, moral identity and honesty- humility play an important role in students' academic dishonesty.

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Journal of School Psychology
Volume 12, Issue 1
2023
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