Abstract
© 2015 Danish Journals All rights reserved The current research has explored the phenomenon of personality traits, self-control and motivational correlates of academic dishonesty university students. It was hypothesized that there is likely to be a significant relationship among self-control, different personality domains and motivational correlates of academic dishonesty among university students. It was also hypothesized that self-control, different personality domains are likely to predict academic dishonesty among students and there are likely to be significant gender differences in personality domains, selfcontrol and motivational correlates of academic dishonesty among university students. For this purpose, a sample of (N=100) university students was drawn through convenient sampling technique from University of the Punjab, Lahore. The measures for this research comprised of an indigenous demographic questionnaire, Ten Items Personality Inventory (Gosling, Rentfrow & Swann, 2003), Self-Control Questionnaire adapted from Tangney, Baumeister, Boone (2004) and adapted and translated version of Motivation Correlates /Academic Dishonesty Questionnaire (Cizek, 2003). The results revealed that there is a significant negative relation of extroversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience and self-control with academic cheating while, self-control also had negative link with academic plagiarism. The results also revealed that extroversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience and poorer selfcontrol were significant predictors of academic cheating (dishonesty). Finding also highlighted that males are more likely to involve in academic cheating while female more likely to inclined towards outside help as academic dishonesty. The results carry strong implications for educational psychologists, counselor, and for educational institutes’ policy makers.
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