Academic Dishonesty: Attitudes and Behaviors of Fundamentalist Christian College Students

This study was designed to examine: (1) the extent to which cheating occurs in fundamentalist Christian colleges; (2) the attitudes of fundamentalist Christian college students toward cheating; (3) attitudes of fundamentalist Christian college students toward cheating among their peers; (4) the kinds of cheating practices of fundamentalist Christian college students; (5) the degree to which students engage in neutralizing behavior to justify cheating; (6) differences in cheating behaviors according to gender; (7) differences in cheating behaviors according to ethnicity; and (8) differences in cheating behaviors according to the length of duration of Christian commitment. Based upon the responses of 337 students attending 3 different Christian colleges, it was concluded that: (1) most Christian fundamentalist students do not engage in cheating; (2) respondents believe that each of 17 self-reported cheating behaviors are serious forms of cheating; (3) respondents are unlikely to report cheating among peers; (4) plagiarism is the most common cheating behavior; (5) most respondents justify cheating on the basis of the workload at school and the pressure to obtain good grades; (6) there are no differences in cheating behavior according to gender; (7) there are differences in cheating behavior according to groups; and (8) most respondents do not cheat regardless of the self-reported duration of Christian commitment.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of North Texas

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Sunday, William G.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lumsden, D. Barry
• Pillai, Vijayan
• Newsom, Ronald W.

• Cheating (Education)
• Christian college students -- Conduct of life.
• Church college students -- Conduct of life.
• academic dishonesty
• gender
• ethnicity
• cheating
• plagiarism

Statement dc:rights

• Use restricted to UNT Community
• Copyright
• Sunday, William G.
• Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

oclc: 50555026
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