Influence Of Self-control, Perceived Opportunity And Attitudes On College Students' Academic Dishonesty

This study adopted academic dishonesty Scale,perceived opportunity scale,attitude toward academic dishonesty scale and self-control scale to survey undergraduates. 543 undergraduates form grade one to grade four asked to complete these scales, investigating the status of academic dishonesty,perceived opportunity,attitude toward academic dishonesty and self-control. Then I investigated the influence of self-control on perceived opportunity,attitudes toward academic and academic dishonesty. On the base of this result, I investigate the mediation of perceived opportunity and attitudes toward academic on the effect of self-control and its factors to academic dishonesty. It had been found:(1) The ability of self-control of Junior is the lowest of all the grades; except the factor of self-awaken, the junior in all the other factors appeared lower ability.(2) The liberal arts students are higher than science students in self-administer,self-programming and self-prompting; the students from the villages and towns are lower than the students from the cities; the ability of self-administer and self-prompting of women is higher than men.(3) The actions of academic dishonesty of sophomore are higher than all of other grads; the number of academic dishonesty of women is lower than men.(4) About 45.0%-60.6% take a neutrally attitudes of academic dishonesty; men are more inclined to academic dishonesty than women.(5) The students from the villages and towns perceived more opportunities of academic dishonesty than cities.(6) The correlations among self-control,academic dishonesty and perceived opportunity are obvious positive, but the correlations between self-control and attitudes is obvious minus; it is obvious positive correlated between self-evaluation,self-emendation,self-administer,self-programming,self-prompting and academic dishonesty,perceived opportunity and attitudes, it is obvious positive correlated between academic dishonesty,attitudes and self-awaken; it is obvious minus correlated between academic dishonesty and attitudes; it is obvious correlated between perceived opportunity and attitudes;(7) In the path analysis, there is obvious influence of attitudes to academic dishonesty; There is obvious direct influence of attitudes to academic dishonesty, then the influence can by way of attitudes to effect academic dishonesty.(8) Attitudes influenced academic dishonesty directly; self-awaken,self-evaluation,self-emendation,self-administer and self-programming influenced academic dishonesty directly, then self-administer,self-emendation and self-awaken influenced academic dishonesty indirectly by way of attitudes.