title: Academic cheating as a function of defense mechanisms and object relations.
abstract: This study examined relationships between academic cheating behaviors by using self-reports of past cheating behavior, providing a situational experiment with the opportunity to cheat, and evaluating defense mechanisms and object relations as measured by the Defense Mechanisms Inventory. Subjects included 75 female and 8 male university students ranging in age from 18 to 51 years (M=25.5, SD=6.9). Analysis showed variations in students' self-reported cheating history relative to their measured object relations status and type of defense mechanisms. Actual cheating in the experimental setting was not significantly related to any of these variables. Findings are discussed based on a critique of heterogeneity of the cheating construct.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, 400 East Building, New York, NY 10003-6674, USA. sam.juni@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Juni
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: Joanna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sokolowska
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D008192:Deception; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires