Abstract
This study aims to examine a number of behavioral factors from students committing academic fraud in university. The subject of this research is the factors that motivate students to commit academic fraud. The Fraud Pentagon Theory and Gone Theory are used. Behavioral factors include arrogance, pressure, opportunity, rationalization, competence, greed, need, and exposure. The population in this study was the undergraduate students in the Accounting Study Program in the Faculty of Economics and Business at Surakarta Muhammadiyah University who had taken courses in Accounting Information Systems and Auditing. This study uses the convenience sampling method as the sampling technique. There were 110 respondents involved. In this study, the hypothesis is subjected to the multiple linear regression analysis.The results of this study show that the factors related to student academic fraud are mainly arrogance and opportunity. Other behavioral factors namely pressure, rationalization, competence, greed, need, and exposure have no effect on student academic fraud.
Highlights
At present, the development of education and increasing academic demands for student competence, in work requirements, and on student accreditation forms, have resulted in some students showing positive and some others showing negative academic behavior.Institutes of higher education, as the builders of positive character and personalities have formed noble character, and student intellectual, emotional, and high spiritual intelligence
The results of this study suggest that arrogance has an effect on student academic fraud
This is indicated by the results of the t-test in the arrogance variable which is equal to -2.390 with a significance level of 0.019
Summary
Institutes of higher education, as the builders of positive character and personalities have formed noble character, and student intellectual, emotional, and high spiritual intelligence. Not all students carry out the education process properly. Some of them take improper actions such as cheating to achieve higher test scores and to fulfill expectations as outstanding students. Academic fraud is a form of negative behavior that has a negative influence on students. Such bad behavior, for example, would be cheating. These actions are carried out by writing small notes, using mobile phones, copying results from friends, and so on. Academic fraud has resulted in unreliable evaluations of student performance which do not describe the true abilities of the students
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