The Structural Relationship Between University Culture and Academic Dishonesty With The Mediation of Moral Obligation in Undergraduate Students

Barani, Hamid; Jowkar, Bahram; Fooladchang, Mahboobeh; Khormaei, Farhad

doi:10.22059/japr.2025.375339.644909

The Structural Relationship Between University Culture and Academic Dishonesty With The Mediation of Moral Obligation in Undergraduate Students

Articles in Press

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Hamid Barani

Bahram Jowkar

Mahboobeh Fooladchang

Farhad Khormaei

Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science and Psychology, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.

10.22059/japr.2025.375339.644909

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the antecedents of academic dishonesty in the form of a Structural model. The research method was correlation using structural equation modeling and the statistical population was all undergraduate students of Shiraz University in the academic year 2021-2022. To investigate the research model, 874 people (265 men, 598 women, 11 of the participants did not declare their gender) female and male undergraduate students were selected by multi-stage random cluster sampling method. Participants responded to the University Culture Scale (UCS), Moral Obligation Scale (MOS), and Academic Dishonesty Behavior Scale (ADS). The criterion of factor loadings, the Fornell-Larker criterion, and the index of the Heterotrait-Monotrait Ratio of Correlations were used to check the validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficient, composite reliability, and Rho_A were used to check reliability. Data analysis was done using Smart PLS-3 software. The results showed that the mediating role of moral obligation was significant in the relationship between university culture and academic dishonesty. university culture and moral obligation play an important role in predicting academic dishonesty. Many institutions are exposed to the consequences of academic dishonesty, they are the beneficiaries of this research and can use the results of this research.

Keywords

Academic Dishonesty

Moral Obligation

University Culture