The effect of research self-efficacy on academic cheating in graduate students: The mediating role of academic locus of control
Subject Areas : Educational
Masood Sadeghi
1
,
ezzatollah ghaampour
2
,
مجید سلیمانی
3
,
samira ghare veysi
4
1 - Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
3 - Educational psychology, Lorestan University and teacher at Farhangian University.
4 - Educational psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.
Keywords: research self-efficacy, academic cheating, academic locus of control, graduate students,
Abstract :
This study was done to investigate the effect of research self-efficacy on academic cheating in graduate students with the mediation of academic locus of control and the research method has been descriptive and it is a correlational study. The statistical population of the study consisted of all graduate students of Kermanshah universities (Razi, Azad, and Payam-Noor) in the first semester of the 2018-2019 academic years. Among the members of the community, a total of 384 people entered the study as samples and researched by the available sampling method. Salehi et al.'s (2011) research self-efficacy questionnaire, Aliverdi Nia et al.'s (2015) academic cheating questionnaire and trice's (1985) academic locus of control questionnaire were used to collect data. The structural equation model with the help of Amos 18 software was used to answer the research hypotheses. The research findings showed that internal academic locus of control does not play a mediating role in the effect of research self-efficacy on academic cheating, but the external academic locus of control as a mediating variable increases academic cheating. Based on the results of the research, it can be said that the requirement of graduate students to research can increase their academic cheating.
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