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Model of Causal Relationship between Goal Orientations and Academic Cheating in Male and Female University Students

Document Type : Research

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1 Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 M.Sc. Student, Educational Psychology, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This study examined the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between goal orientations and academic cheating among university students. In this correlational study, 200 university students (100 male and 100 female) responded to the Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (AGQ-R, Elliot & Murayama, 2008) and the Academic Cheating Scale (ACS, Farnese, Tramontano, Fida & Paciello, 2011). Multi-group structural equation modeling was used to assess the causal model of gender-moderating effects on the relationship between goal orientations and academic cheating among university students. Results indicated that for total sample and for male and female university students, the relationship between mastery-approach goal orientations with academic cheating was negative and significant and the relationship between mastery-avoidance-goal orientation, performance-approach goal orientation and performance-avoidance goal orientation with academic cheating was negative and significant. In addition, the results of group assignment of causal relationships between variables showed that the relationships between goal orientations and academic cheating in two groups of male and female students were equivalent. Finally, the results showed that in the supposed causal models, 20% and 14% of the variance of academic cheating scores were explained through goal orientations in male and female students, respectively. In sum, the results of the present study, while supporting the conceptual positions of the achievement goal theory in explaining the motivational construct of academic cheating, showed that the functional characteristics of the motivational construct of goal orientations in predicting academic cheating behaviors in male and female university students were similar.

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Research in School and Virtual Learning
Volume 9, Issue 4 - Serial Number 36
June 2022
Pages 47-60
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