Corrupt Intent Research Articles

Can Religiosity Reduce Corruption Intention In Civil Servant?

Aceh Province is an area that has special autonomy and authority in regulating regional policies. One of them is regional financial management based on facts that are vulnerable to corruption. Corruption is a deviant behavior that is manifested from misuse of tasks for personal gain, other people and institutions. Corruption is an act that is prohibited by religion, but corruption behavior still occurs. Religiosity should be an individual defense to not commit corruption. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between religiosity and the intention of corruption among civil servants in Aceh provincial government agencies. This research uses quantitative research method with incidental sampling technique. The sample in this study were 350 respondents (n = 350) from eight Aceh provincial government agencies. The results of this study indicate that there is a negative relationship between religiosity and corrupt intentions of civil servants, with the meaning that the higher the religiosity, the lower the intention of corruption.

Peran Mediasi Materialisme Pada Pengaruh Harga Diri dan Iklim Etika Terhadap Intensi Korupsi Kader Partai Politik

Corruption cases in Indonesia involving members of Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) asrepresentatives of society are still occurring. The elected DPR members come from political parties, whichare organizations where people have democracy. Previous studies have shown that self-esteem and ethicalclimate in organizations affect the intensity of corruption. In addition, materialism becomes a mediatorbetween self-esteem and corruption intentions. This research was conducted to determine the intensity ofcorruption in political party cadres from a new perspective. The data obtained from a sample of a politicalparty was then processed using a linear regression technique with the help of IBM version 22 software. Theresults show that self-esteem has an effect of -0.152 (p = 0.002) and ethical climate has an effect of-0.163 (p = 0.001) on corruption intentions. Meanwhile, materialism becomes a partial mediator ofthe influence of self-esteem on corruption intentions. Internal factors within party cadres play an essentialrole in reducing the intensity of corruption. Programs of training activities that can improve the ethical climatein political party organizations are also urgently needed, such as Politik Cerdas Berintegritas Terpadu (PCBTerpadu) organized by Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi (KPK) together with political parties to realizeIndonesian politics with integrity.

PREVENTION OF CORRUPTION WITHIN STUDENT ORGANIZATIONS

This study has two objectives, the first is to analyze and evaluate the factors that influence students' corruption intentions in managing anti-corruption organization funds, and the second to identify and analyze opportunities. corruption in the implementation of student activities. The problem is, that the students know that corruption has occurred but cannot report it because they are meeting with friends. The purpose of this research is to fill the research gap, namely. examines the phenomenon of student decision-making in reporting corruption in student financial management through a whistleblowing mechanism using the theory of planned behavior and a framework of moral standards. This research uses a qualitative case study. The data collection method is a literature search. Content and thematic analysis techniques are used in the analytical techniques. The results showed that the factors that influence the intention of organizational members to report corruption in the management of organizational assets include: Attitudes, subjective norms, and perceptions of behavioral control are not the dominant factors, while moral norms are the dominant factors. by establishing the intention of student body members to take action to report corruption. The whistleblowing mechanism is implemented using witness reports (whistleblowing).

Machine learning prediction of petty corruption intention among law enforcement officers

Law enforcement agencies face a widespread problem of corruption, which jeopardizes their credibility and institutional integrity. Thus, the primary goal of this study is to develop a machine learning prediction model for petty corruption intentions as an early warning system for law enforcement officials who fail to perform their duties and obligations with integrity. Using a questionnaire survey of two hundred twenty-five participants, from senior officers to rank and file police officers, this study presents the fundamental knowledge on the design and implementation of machine learning model based on six selected algorithms; generalized linear model, fast last margin, decision tree, random forest, gradient boosted trees, and support vector machine. In addition to demographic factors, the efficacy of each machine learning algorithm on petty corruption was evaluated using general strain theory (GST) attributes: financial stress, work stress, leadership pressure, and peer pressure. The findings indicated that peer pressure has given the highest weight of contributions to most of the machine learning algorithms. The most outperformed machine learning in terms of the classification accuracy is gradient boosted trees with accuracy above 90%. This paper presents useful knowledge to enhance the realization of implementing intelligent corruption detection tools.

Legal Policy of Anti-Corruption Supervisor Design: A New Anti-Corruption Model in Indonesia

<p>Corruption is a fact of life in Indonesia and has a significant negative impact. The malicious intention of corruption in Indonesia has normatively shifted in terms of its meaning, adjusting to its opportunity. However, the increase in corruption in Indonesia is not accompanied by a legal policy of anti-corruption supervisor design. This study analyzes the legal procedure of strengthening supervision for corruption prevention in realizing good governance. The results indicate that the derived meaning of malicious intention of corruption in the old order, new order, and reform era gradually reduces the significance of adversarial nature from the perspective of public morality and the state's ideology. The Corruption Eradication Commission has been given authority to prevent and prosecute criminal acts of corruption. Establishing anti-corruption institutions in the regions serves as an anti-corruption enforcement agency and a control and monitoring system for government administration in all agencies to achieve good governance.</p>

A dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people.

Preliminary studies indicate that ideologies and worldviews are key in understanding the motivation behind corruption. Yet, there is no model seeking to explain corrupt intention that incorporates ideology and worldviews as predictors. Our objective was to propose a model integrating ideological factors (social dominance orientation [SDO] and right-wing authoritarianism [RWA]) and their underlying worldviews (competitive worldview beliefs [CWB] and dangerous worldview beliefs [DWB]) as predictors of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people and examine the model in the high corruption context of Brazil. For that purpose, preregistered hypotheses were tested across six studies. Results confirmed that corrupt intention is predicted by SDO but not RWA, while attitudes toward corrupt people are predicted by RWA but not SDO (Studies 1, 2, and 4). Replicating these findings cross-culturally, World Values Survey data (Study 3) indicated that corrupt intention is predicted by a proxy SDO index but not by a proxy RWA index. Experimentally increasing DWB amplified corrupt intention, but attitudes toward corrupt people remained unaffected (Study 5). Study 6 further confirmed the independence of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people, with corrupt intention primarily predicted by CWB and attitudes toward corrupt people primarily predicted by RWA. Hence, the first social psychological model that seeks to explain corruption integrating ideologies and worldviews was successfully proposed with implications for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Students' Perceptions of University Corruption in a Spanish Public University: A Path Analysis.

Most research on corruption in educational settings has focused on a cross-national and macro-level analysis; however, to our knowledge, few papers have sought to explore individual perceptions that explain corruption in higher education. The present research aimed to disentangle students’ predictors of corrupt intention in a Spanish public university. A total of 933 undergraduate, postgraduate, and Ph.D. students filled out an online survey measuring four corruption scenarios: favoritism, bribery, fraud, and embezzlement. Path analysis (PA) revealed that justifiability, risk perception, and perceived prevalence of corruption were significant factors in predicting corrupt intention. Moreover, willingness to report a corrupt act was predicted by corrupt intention, justifiability, and risk perception. Corrupt behavior is a complex phenomenon explained not only by peers’ behavior, but also by their individual justifications and perception of risk. Education is not free of corruption, and universities must address this urgent problem in order to avoid future economic, societal, and ethical problems.

Corruption as an Ethical Issue; The Dark Triad, Corrupt Intention and the

Despite the vast majority of research on dark triad and unethical behaviors globally, little research has been done in Saudi Arabia regarding this topic, and few studies have hypothesized moral disengagement as a path through which this relationship operates. This book was focused on and explained by Muslims scholars for a long period of time.

Supplemental Material for A Dual Process Social Psychological Model of Corrupt Intention and Attitudes Toward Corrupt People

Supplemental Material for A Dual Process Social Psychological Model of Corrupt Intention and Attitudes Toward Corrupt People

How does narcissism influence corruption? The moderating role of boredom

Previous research has suggested that narcissism can effectively induce corruption; however, those studies were unable to predict what triggered narcissists to engage in corruption. Our research extends this line of research by showing the moderated model that narcissism was positively associated with corruption only under conditions of boredom. In Study 1, we preliminarily confirmed our moderated model using a correlational design. In Studies 2 and 3, we manipulated boredom using different paradigms to explore the relationship between narcissism and corrupt intent (Study 2) and behavior (Study 3). The results of all three studies consistently indicated that narcissism positively predicted corruption when boredom was high, whereas the effect disappeared when boredom was low. Our results illustrate the importance of reducing boredom to inhibit the corruption of narcissists.

The importance of dark personality traits in predicting workplace outcomes

The present study examined the incremental validity of dark personality traits (DT) in predicting workplace outcomes beyond the predictive power of HEXACO model of personality. A sample of 350 Hungarian working adults completed self-report measures of the DT, HEXACO model of personality, and workplace outcomes such as organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), counterproductive work behavior (CWB), turnover intention, and work-related corruption intention. The results showed that the DT traits counted for measurable unique variance in CWB and work-related corruption intention but not in OCB and turnover intention. More specifically, subclinical psychopathy predicted both CWB and corruption intention, while Machiavellianism predicted corruption intention. Subclinical narcissism was unrelated to the outcome variables. These unique variances beyond the HEXACO model of personality were generally small.

Dark Triad Personality as Predictor of Corrupt Intention on the State Civil Apparatus

Referring to the theory of planned behavior, behavior appear because of behavior intention, where personality was one of behavior intention’s factor. The aims of this study was to examine the correlation between dark triad personality and corrupt intention in government employees. Data were collected using accidental sampling with cross-sectional survey quantitative research design on 75 government employees from four different sub-district. The result showed that there was a significant positive correlation between dark triad personality and corrupt intention (r=0,415; p=0,001). Additional analysis showed that corruption is a crime caused of weak regulation system and supervision (PBC r=0,665). Last but not least, dark triad personality’s aspect narcissism was the most influenced of corrupt intention (r=0,413). The theoretical implication found in this study was, dark triad personality is nit direct predictor of corrupt intention, but an indirect predictor through attitude towards behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavior control.

Are greedy individuals more corrupt?

It is a widespread belief that greed keeps corruption alive. We tried to testify this belief and further proposed that this pattern would fade under conditions of low descriptive corruption norms. Therefore, two studies were conducted to examine the effect of greed on corruption and the buffering role of descriptive corruption norms. In Study 1, we strengthened support for the causal effect of greed on corruption. In Study 2, we further illustrated that greed positively predicted corrupt intent when descriptive corruption norms were high; by contrast, the relationship disappeared when descriptive corruption norms were low. The present research refines the belief that greed leads to corruption absolutely, and suggests feasible ways to reduce the negative influence of greed on corruption.

The effect of Planned Behavior Theory on Corruption Intention Intracampus Organization

This study aim to determine the effect of Planned Behavior Theory and it’s components on the corruption intention of intracampus organization administrators. The research subject were 111 administrator at Padang State University. The research design used is quantitative associative type with purposive sampling technique. The research used a corruption intention scale and Theory of Planned Behavior scale. The result found that there was a significant positive effect between Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and the intention of corruption in intracampus organization administrators with R2= 0,454 or 45,4% effective contribution. The TPB components that have the most influence on corruption intentions are in order of attitude towards behavior, subjective norm, and perceive behavior control. There were no differences in corruption intention, both in terms of gender and frequency of joining organizations. This research can be used to consider the procurement of anti-corruption education courses in universities and student organizations can add a measure of TPB and corruption intention for recruitment of new members.

The Mediating Effect of Overcompensation of Rationalisation on Instrumental Climate and Escalation of Corruption Relationship

This paper employs cognitive dissonance theory to investigate the mediating effect of Overcompensation of Rationalisation (OCR) on instrumental climate and escalation of corruption relationship. Moreover, this study examines the role of loyalty as a moderator to reduce the impact of instrumental climate on OCR. This study uses laboratory experiments with 94 master’s degree students as participants. The results show that OCR fully mediates the relationship between the instrumental climate and the escalation of corruption. Instrumental climate leads an individual to OCR, which impacts on the corruption escalation. The analysis also shows that loyalty can moderate the effect of instrumental climate on OCR. It indicates that a level of loyalty enables an individual to filter the impact of instrumental climate on OCR. Besides, the intention of corruption also contributes to the escalation and snowballing effect of corruption. Surprisingly, it is also found that individuals with their experiences tend to be more expert, skilful, and efficient in committing acts of corruption. Those enable the perpetrator to be corrupt smoothly; the amount of corruption, in aggregate, is more massive without the increase of maximum scores so it can lead the evaluator on.

Voice or exit? Political corruption and voting intentions in Hungary

ABSTRACT How does perceived political corruption affect electoral preferences? Scholarship of Eastern Europe addressed this question primarily through the study of observational data. This study contributes to the existing scholarship by addressing the endogeneity problem and allows to causally interpret effects of perceived corruption on voting intentions. It combines hypotheses tested in earlier studies to investigate the impact of perceived political corruption on different electoral choices. A survey experiment in Hungary shows that exposure to political corruption makes respondents more likely to abstain from voting, less likely to support the incumbent party, and more likely to expect the anti-establishment party to win.

Information Sharing Among Park Professionals: Facilitating Ecological Restoration

Ecological restoration projects in nature preserves are most likely to be effective when those holding different roles within park agencies share information in a complete and timely manner. However, when the information contains sensitive material the transfer of knowledge can become difficult. Anytime sensitive information on topics such as endangered species or cultural artifacts is shared, there is a risk that the information could be used for unethical activities. With the potential for sensitive information to be used with corrupt intent, some park staff members could feel that sharing information might be outside of the best interest of the agency’s mission to protect the ecological and cultural functioning of the nature preserve. Anytime information sharing occurs it is possible that knowledge could be acquired by corrupt actors potentially putting the material resources with the preserve lands at risk of damage. However, if information is not shared it would be a hindrance to ecological restoration projects. To facilitate the sharing of information related to ecological restoration, park agencies with mandates to both provide for human use and preserve ecological conditions need to invest in both technical and social infrastructures. Park agencies generally accumulate information across time in ways that staff members could access it, usually done in informal and decentralized ways. Organizations regularly utilize technical investments in computers and electronic filing to facilitate sharing information by providing the necessary tools. However, research in park management and ecological restoration has not fully explored the social investments that facilitate sharing information. A conceptual framework is developed to explain the relationship between trust, risk, and information sharing in ecological restoration projects within a public park agency. A complementary mixed-methods approach was applied including nine in-person interviews and a survey (n=49; 96% response rate) distributed to all professional staff members of the Forest Preserves of Cook County, Illinois USA (FPCC). Acknowledging the role of information sharing in public park management, the FPCC developed a management information system to secure, transfer, and catalog relevant information for ecological restoration. The FPCC leadership was also aware of the need to invest in improving the social processes involved in information sharing, which led to the motivation for the study. Empirical evidence from the research supports that perceived material risk influenced trust, perceived individual risk, and willingness to information share. The survey findings indicate that when a respondent perceives a high level of risk, trust and information sharing are diminished; the survey findings are further corroborated by participant interviews. The qualitative evidence also gave reason to believe that participants conceived of risk as both a threat to the park resource they manage (ecological) as well as a threat to their professional development (individual). Results indicate that social factors impact intra-organizational information sharing in the context of park management for ecological restoration. The study supports the need for agencies to invest in both social and technical infrastructures when embarking on ecological restoration projects. Subscribe to JPRA

Determinants of Students’ Willingness to Engage in Corruption in an Academic Setting: an Empirical Study

Corruption in higher education has raised concern among governments, citizens, and the education community worldwide. However, few papers have sought to explore the students’ willingness to engage in corrupt practices at the university level. The present study aimed to examine the influence of different corrupt behaviours and perceived corruption among peers on the corrupt intention of university students. 120 undergraduate students participated in a quasi-experimental design divided in 3 treatments (control, low-corruption acceptance, high-corruption acceptance) to rate their willingness to engage in favouritism and embezzlement behaviours. Results pointed out that students were more prone to committing a non-monetary behaviour favouritism– than a monetary behaviour –embezzlement–. Furthermore, there were not significant differences between the groups of control and high-corruption acceptance; while only the group of low-corruption acceptance showed significant lower rates when compared to the control and the high-corruption acceptance’s group. Practical recommendations need to address students’ perceptions of different corrupt practices, focusing on designing ethical training programmes aimed to raise awareness on the negative consequences of non-monetary activities. Future research directions could generate empirical support to prove if students are able to recognize the underlying mechanisms of subtle corrupt practices.

Understanding unethical behaviors at the university level: a multiple regression analysis

ABSTRACT Unethical behaviors such as corruption pose an important challenge for students, professors, and other university members. We aimed to clarify students’ willingness to engage in corruption in a Spanish public university. In all, 3,475 undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD students completed an online questionnaire assessing four corruption scenarios: favoritism, bribery, fraud, and embezzlement. Multiple regression analysis suggested that justifiability, risk perception, and perceived corruption played a key role in explaining corrupt intention. Behavioral intention to engage in corruption is a complex phenomenon explained by not only peers’ behaviors, but also individuals’ justifications of their acts and risk perceptions.

Does power corrupt? The moderating effect of status.

Findings on the effect of power on corruption are mixed. To make sense of these mixed results, three studies were conducted to examine the moderating role of status on this effect. In Study 1, corrupt intent was measured using a corruption scenario that contained manipulations of power and status. In Study 2, corrupt behaviour was measured in a corruption game that contained manipulations of power and status. Study 3 was conducted in real organisational settings, and aimed to expand the external validity of Studies 1 and 2. The results of all three studies consistently indicated that the effect of power was moderated by status. Specifically, power increased corruption when status was low, whereas this effect disappeared when status was high. The implications of reducing the facilitating effect of power on corruption by considering status from the perspective of social hierarchy are discussed.