Abstract
The study aims to identify the reality and degree of commitment of postgraduate students to ethical behaviors from the students' own point of view, and to identify the statistical differences of the reality of academic ethics according to the variables of gender, college and academic degree. The sample of the study consisted of (270) male and female postgraduate students, and in order to achieve the objectives of the study and answer its questions, the questionnaire- based survey approach was followed. The results showed that the degree of commitment to academic ethics among postgraduate students was average in all fields, where the arithmetic mean about the reality of the degree of commitment to academic ethics was (3.50) and mean of the ethics of human and community relations was (2.85). Results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences at the level of (α 0.05). According to the difference in the gender variable and in favor of males, and there were no differences in relation to the variable of the college to which the student belongs. Therefore, it is imperative for the Jordanian universities to enhance and develop the degree of commitment to ethics among students in general, whether inside or outside universities.
Highlights
Ethics are an innately stable quality in the human soul that govern the person's conduct and behavior towards what is good and what is bad
Concerning the age variable in Table No .2. there is a similar distribution across age groups, as it was found that (45.9%) of students are less than 30 years old and number (124), followed by the percentage (27.4) for those between (31-40) years old and (74) A student .The results indicate that there are fewer respondents (61) in the older age groups than (41-50) years by 22.6%, and those in the age group 51 years or more were only (4.1% .)These results indicate that the community of graduate students at Yarmouk University is among the youth
Graduate students confirm that they have a degree of commitment to academic ethics from their point of view, the score was on a median level (3.50)
Summary
Ethics are an innately stable quality in the human soul that govern the person's conduct and behavior towards what is good and what is bad. As the subject of study relates to postgraduate students from their point of view, self-censorship is included as part of this study. Graduate students can through the acquired skills and knowledge improve their career in areas like the government sector, business, education, social work, the non-profit sector, international affair, etc. One of the main goals of higher education has been to influence the moral and ethical development of the members of society, which is reflected at the same time in the development of students' moral competence in addition to providing students with an education that qualifies them intellectually to contribute to the growth and prosperity of society
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