Personal Moral Philosophy of Undergraduates towards Academic Dishonesty

Abstract

Undeniably moral belief among undergraduates is pertinent since it will provide a better perspective to seek for answers on the possible reasons undergraduates engage in unethical behaviour. However, the existing literature showed that only limited studies focuses in this specific moral belief development of undergraduates. Thus, this study aimed to identity the level of personal moral philosophy (idealism and relativism) of undergraduates together with the examination on the relationship between PMP and undergraduates' academic cheating behaviour. Data were collected from 620 undergraduates through questionnaire surveys by employing a simple random sampling. The study found that undergraduates are lately more idealism compared to relativism, which indicated that students are aware with the academic cheating behaviour and try to avoid involving in it. Future recommendations are provided to further understand the complexities associated with academic dishonesty.