The effect of mindfulness and spiritual intelligence on academic dishonesty with mediation of academic self-concept in secondary school students

Subject Areas : Educational

AbdolMohammad Ordozadeh ¹ , فرح نادری ² , zahra eftekharsaadi ³ , Parvin Ehteshamzadeh ⁴

1 - Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2022-06-27 Accepted : 2022-09-18 Published : 2024-12-11

Keywords: academic dishonesty, mindfulness, spiritual intelligence & academic self-concept, secondary school students,

Abstract :

The present research aimed to investigate the effec of mindfulness and spiritual intelligence on academic dishonesty with mediation of academic self-concept in secondary school students. In this correlational study, All the secondary school students in Khorramabad city in academic year 2021-2022 that 300 people were selected as the stepwise cluster sampling method. In this study, Mindfulness (Baer et al., 2006), Spiritual Intelligence (Abdollahzadeh et al., 2009), Academic Dishonesty (Khamsan & Asghar Amiri, 2011) and Academic self-concept of (Yi-Hissn Chen) were used for data collection in this study. The proposed model was evaluated using a path analysis. The results showed that the direct paths, mindfulness whit academic self-concept, spiritual intelligence whit academic self-concept, spiritual intelligence whit academic dishonesty, and academic self-concept whit academic dishonesty, were significant (p≤0.05).  Also indirect pathways were significant mindfulness and spiritual intelligence with academic dishonesty with mediating role of academic self-concept and also, spiritual intelligence with academic dishonesty with mediating role of academic self-concept (p≤0.05). Based on the results of this study, the proposed model has a good fit and is an important step in identifying the factors affecting students' academic dishonesty.

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