title: Predictors of Cheating among Early Adolescents: Academic and Social Motivations.
abstract: This study examined the relations between middle school students' self-reported cheating and several indicators of academic and social motivation. It was hypothesized that students' academic self-efficacy and personal and classroom goal orientations would predict cheating. Social motivations were presumed to predict cheating above and beyond achievement motivation. Four dimensions of relationships within schools were measured: participation structure, teacher commitment and competence, teacher respect, and sense of school belonging. Logistic regression analyses were used to predict classification as a cheater or noncheater. Although academic motivation variables predicted cheating, the addition of the relationship variables significantly improved the classification rates. The final model included grade in school, academic self-efficacy, extrinsic goal orientation, participation structure, teacher commitment, and teacher respect. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Kansas City
authors.forename: Tamera B.
authors.initials: TB
authors.lastname: Murdock
authors.forename: Natalie M.
authors.initials: NM
authors.lastname: Hale
authors.forename: Mary Jo
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Weber