Students' moral reasoning, Machiavellianism and socially desirable responding: implications for teaching ethics and research integrity

Hren, Darko; Vujaklija, Ana; Ivanišević, Ranka; Knežević, Josip; Marušić, Matko; Marušić, Ana

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2929.2006.02391.x

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“…This finding supports the work of other researchers who have identified a negative correlation between Machiavellianism and moral reasoning. 32,33 This finding suggests that male behavior may be performance driven and reflective of societal upbringing and expectations in that male adults are encouraged to engage in more aggressive and risktaking behavior and to attain higher levels of academic and career performance. Among female students, only idealism significantly predicted their attitudes toward cheating.…”

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Effect of Dispositional Traits on Pharmacy Students’ Attitude Toward Cheating

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Heyliger

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American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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Objective. To explore the relation between dispositional traits and pharmacy students' attitudes toward cheating in a university setting. Methods. A questionnaire was administered primarily to pharmacy students at a comprehensive university in the southeastern United States to assess self-esteem, self-efficacy, idealism, relativism, student attitudes toward cheating, tolerance for peer cheating, detachment from the university, Machiavellian behavior, and demographic information. Results. Gender, degree of idealism, relativism, and Machiavellian traits were found to influence student attitudes toward cheating, while age, grade-point average (GPA), race, income, and marital status did not. Conclusions. Considered collectively, these data support the study model prediction that the major determinants of student attitudes toward cheating are based on the degree of idealism and relativism evident in the students' dispositional trait. Idealism was found to be inversely related to the likelihood of a student engaging in cheating or tolerating peer cheating.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Effect of Dispositional Traits on Pharmacy Students’ Attitude Toward Cheating

Saulsbury

Brown

Heyliger

et al. 2011

American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

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“…As such, it might be expected that high levels of moral development would be negatively correlated with some if not all of the three Dark Triad variables, and an empirical examination of this is one of the goals of the present study. Some previous studies have investigated relationships between moral development and narcissism (Yocum, 2007), Machiavellianism (Hren et al, 2006), and psychopathy (Blair, 1995) individually, but ours is the first to include measures of all three of the Dark Triad variables.…”

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A Behavioral Genetic Study of the Dark Triad of Personality and Moral Development

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The present study is the first behavioral genetic investigation of relationships between the Dark Triad of personality — Machiavellianism, narcissism, and subclinical psychopathy — and moral development. Participants were 154 monozygotic twin pairs and 82 same-sex dizygotic twin pairs. Higher scores on Machiavellianism and psychopathy were positively correlated with low levels of moral development; high psychopathy scores also correlated negatively with high levels of moral development. Individual differences in lower levels of moral development were attributable to genetic and nonshared environmental factors but, very interestingly, individual differences in the highest levels of moral development showed no genetic basis but were entirely attributable to shared and nonshared environmental factors. Finally, correlations between the Dark Triad and moral development variables showed no genetic basis while correlations among the moral development variables were variously attributable to correlated genetic and correlated environmental factors.

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“…It is measured by 12 statements with score range 12-60. Low score range (12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28) indicates attitude with low tolerance toward plagiarism. Statements measuring positive attitude toward plagiarism are mainly related to procedures that participants do by themselves (23).…”

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Attitudes toward plagiarism among pharmacy and medical biochemistry students – cross-sectional survey study

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Introduction: Plagiarism is one of the most frequent and serious forms of misconduct in academic environment. The cross-sectional survey study was done with aim to explore the attitudes toward plagiarism. Materials and methods: First year students of Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia (N = 146) were anonymously tested using Attitude toward Plagiarism (ATP) questionnaire. The questionnaire is composed of 29 statements on a 5 point Likert scale, (1 -strongly disagree, 2 -disagree, 3 -neither agree nor disagree, 4 -agree and 5 -strongly agree) measuring three attitudinal factors (positive and negative attitude and subjective norms) toward plagiarism. Results were presented as score (mean ± SD) followed by reference range (divided in three equal parts: low, moderate and high score). Score range expends from 12 to 60 (low: 12-28; moderate: 29-45; high: 46-60) measuring positive attitude toward plagiarism, from 7 to 35 (low: 7-16; moderate: 17-26; high: 27-35) measuring negative attitude toward plagiarism and from 10 to 50 (low: 10-23; moderate: 24-37; high: 38-50) measuring subjective norms. Response rate was 99% (N = 144). Results: Results revealed moderate positive attitude (36 ± 7) and subjective norms (32 ± 6) toward plagiarism and moderate to high negative attitude (26 ± 4). Plagiarism is perceived as not very important (63% of students), harmless (59%), justi ed under special circumstances (42%), and sometimes necessary (35%). Conclusion: Students' attitudes re ect insu cient level of seriousness and awareness with which plagiarism is perceived. They are lacking knowledge on scienti c methodology, academic and scienti c misconduct. Plan and program to educate students about academic integrity and research methodology is required on all educational level.

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Students' moral reasoning, Machiavellianism and socially desirable responding: implications for teaching ethics and research integrity

Cited by 49 publications

References 24 publications

Effect of Dispositional Traits on Pharmacy Students’ Attitude Toward Cheating

Effect of Dispositional Traits on Pharmacy Students’ Attitude Toward Cheating

A Behavioral Genetic Study of the Dark Triad of Personality and Moral Development

Attitudes toward plagiarism among pharmacy and medical biochemistry students – cross-sectional survey study

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