Dishonesty in Academics and Business: A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of Student Attitudes

An experimental evaluation of an anti-corruption intervention among Ukrainian university students

“…One important reason is that students who cheat at university could be induced to do so later in their working life, for example, by presenting the ideas of their co-workers as their own (analogous to writing a university paper by copying and pasting text from the internet), by filling out and turning in false expense reports (using cheat sheets during exams at school), or by giving employers a false reason for missing work (giving a professor a false reason for missing a class or exam) (see the discussion in Grimes, 2004). Such a system likely produces a mismatch between qualifications politics on the other.…”

Academic cheating and time perspective: Cheaters live in the present instead of the future

“…Participants answer by using a slightly modified 5-point scale (1 = not even once, 2 = 1-2 times; 3 = 3-5 times; 4 = 6-10 times; 5 = more than 10 times). This five-point scale was different from the original version of McCabe and Trevino (1997) as higher rates of cheating were measured in previous Hungarian and Eastern-European studies (Grimes, 2004;Orosz et al, 2013;. McCabe and Trevino (1997) did not specify the frequency of the cheating (1 = never; 2 = once; 3 = a few times; 4 = several times; 5 = many times) and the academic time span (one semester vs. during all high school years) in their original scale.…”

Psychological and moral determinants in accepting cheating and plagiarism among university students in Poland

“…This conclusion may be derived from the cultural comparisons made by Grimes (2004) or by the author and her collaborators (Chudzicka-Czupała, Lupina-Wegener, Borter & Hapon, 2013), who focused on Ukraine, Poland and Switzerland, three countries with different political systems and cultures. The results of the mentioned research show that despite the growth of institutional and social differences between Poland and Ukraine, cultural similarities still persist in terms of cheating and existing social norms.…”