College cheating: Immaturity, lack of commitment, and the neutralizing attitude

Haines, Valerie J.; Diekhoff, George M.; LaBeff, Emily E.; Clark, Robert E.

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“…These findings are consistent with other studies that have identified correlates of academic dishonesty among college undergraduates. Haines et al 1986 found that participation in varsity and especially intramural sports was associated with increased odds of cheating. In a follow-up study of students at the same university a decade later, the same research group found again that both intramural and varsity sports participation were positive predictors of academic dishonesty (Diekhoff et al, 1996).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Most research studies on sport and deviance have employed objective measures of athletic participation, such as dichotomous indicators of varsity or intramural athlete status (Best, 1985;Bredemeier et al, 1985;Diekhoff et al, 1996;Haines et al, 1986; Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002;Segrave and Hastad, 1984;Snyder, 1994;Stark et al, 1987), categorical measures of frequency of sports or exercise activity or number of sports played (Begg et al, 1996;Osgood et al, 1996;Paetsch and Bertrand, 1997), or some combination thereof (Buhrmann and Bratton, 1978;Priest et al, 1999;Rees et al, 1990;Segrave and Chu, 1978). Far less common are more subjective measures of athletic involvement, such as self-reported athletic or "jock" identity.…”

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“…Inconsistencies also result from the use of divergent sample populations, time frames, and operational definitions of both athletic participation and delinquency. In fact, a growing number of studies have challenged the deterrent hypothesis, finding either a positive association between sport and deviance (Begg et al, 1996;Diekhoff et al, 1996;Haines et al, 1986;Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002;Paetsch and Bertrand, 1997), weak or inconsistent effects (Eitle and Eitle, 2002;Eitle et al, 2003;Leonard, 1998), or none at all (Best, 1985).…”

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“…Interestingly, while most studies have employed samples that were exclusively male (Best, 1985;Schafer, 1969;Segrave and Chu, 1978;Stark et al, 1987) or exclusively female (Buhrmann and Bratton, 1978), their conclusions have been remarkably similar. Although males are clearly overrepresented among both athletes and delinquents, those studies that have incorporated both female and male subjects have generally found no discernible gendered patterns in the et al, 1986;Bredemeier et al, 1985). For example, Priest et al 1999 found that although women's ethical value choice scores tended to be higher than men's, both female and male athletes' scores declined at comparable rates across their four-year college careers.…”

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Athletic Involvement and Adolescent Delinquency

Miller

Melnick

Barnes

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J Youth Adolescence

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Athough conventional wisdom suggests that organized sport deters delinquency by building character, structuring adolescents' time, and providing incentives for socially approved behavior, the empirical evidence to date has been mixed. Based on a sample of approximately 600 Western New York adolescents, the present study examined how self-reported jock identity, school athlete status, and frequency of athletic activity differentially influenced a range of delinquent behaviors. Neither athlete status nor frequency of athletic activity predicted these behaviors; however, jock identity was associated with significantly more incidents of delinquency. This finding was robust across both gender and race. Follow-up analyses indicated that jock identity facilitated both minor and major delinquency, with major delinquency effects for white but not black adolescents. KeywordsAthletic involvement; Delinquency; Adolescence; Identity Lying, cheating, stealing, and other forms of deviant or delinquent behavior among high schoolaged U.S. adolescents have grown more common over the course of the past decade (Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002). While most teens experiment with delinquent behavior at some point in the developmental trajectory from childhood to adulthood, choices made in adolescence may have both immediate and long-term consequences. Thus considerable attention has been devoted to identifying structured activities that provide both opportunities for more conventional success and resources for exploiting those opportunities (Feldman and Matjasko, 2005;Fraser-Thomas et al., 2005). For example, the salutary effects of organized sports on adolescent development have been widely documented (Ewing et al., 1996; Women's Sports Foundation, 2000). This institution has a great deal of promise as a venue for promoting positive development because sports have historically occupied an unusually prominent space in the American adolescent social landscape. In the 2004-2005 school year, 42% of U.S. public high school students (about 7 million students, including 4.1 million boys and 2.9 million girls) participated in organized high school sports ( NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptAthletic involvement-in terms of both objective participation in organized sports and a subjective affiliation with an athletic or "jock" identity-plays a critical role in the lives of many American teenagers. Yet, although conventional wisdom has long suggested that organized sport deters delinquency by building character, structuring adolescents' time, and providing incentives for socially approved behavior, the empirical evidence has been mixed (Feldman and Matjasko, 2005;Rees et al., 1990;Snyder, 1994). In fact, rather than reliably serving as a deterrent, sports may under some circumstances actually be itself a pathway to delinquency. A clearer understanding of the parameters of the multifaceted relationship between athletic involvement and delinquency is necessary in order to craft effective polic...

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Athletic Involvement and Adolescent Delinquency

Miller

Melnick

Barnes

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J Youth Adolescence

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“…College cheating is rampant and continuously increasing. A group of researchers in Haines et al (1986) report that 50% of college students reported cheating, and just a decade later the same group of researchers found this number has risen to 61.2% (Diekhoff et al, 1996). More recently, Dick et al (2003) reports that on average 75% of college students reported cheating at some point during the college studies.…”

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Identifying Security Risk Modules in Information Systems

Dreyfuss¹,

Giat²

2016

InSITE Conference

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We develop a two-stage model for identifying IT system modules with high security risks. In the first phase, we identify the subsystems that pose the highest risk and which require further investigation. In the next phase, we identify the high-security-risk modules using a more detailed approach. The output of this model helps managers decide on how to invest efficiently in improving the security of their IT system. We describe an application of this model to an IT system in an academic institution in Israel. In the first phase, three of ten subsystems are found to be very risky. In the next phase, we highlight the critical modules within those subsystems. The results of our application in the academic institution indicate that security breaches for the purpose of cheating are a greater threat than other types of security issues.

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Views of cheating among college students and faculty

Livosky

Tauber

1994

Psychol. Schs.

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College students ( N = 446) and faculty (N = 97) completed a survey examining views of cheating. Agreement was noted on most situations. When differences were noted, students tended to be stricter than faculty in their evaluations and were more likely than faculty to label a situation as cheating. Opinions and views of cheating were influenced more by behavior, whether "premeditated" or "opportunistic," than by intention.

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College cheating: Immaturity, lack of commitment, and the neutralizing attitude

Cited by 381 publications

References 13 publications

Athletic Involvement and Adolescent Delinquency

Athletic Involvement and Adolescent Delinquency

Identifying Security Risk Modules in Information Systems

Views of cheating among college students and faculty

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