When and why people don't accept cheating : self-transcendence values, social responsibility, mastery goals and attitudes towards cheating

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Title
When and why people don't accept cheating : self-transcendence values, social responsibility, mastery goals and attitudes towards cheating
Journal
Motivation and Emotion
Author(s)
Pulfrey C., Butera F.
Publication state
Published
Issued date
2016
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
40
Number
3
Pages
438-454
Language
english
Abstract
Although self-transcendence values have received top rankings as moral values, research has yet to show how they relate to cheating. In two studies, (N = 129) and (N = 122), we analyze the indirect motivational path between self-transcendence values and acceptance of cheating.
Both studies were carried out with third-year students in an international management school: Study 1 included 58 male and 65 female students (6 missing values), mean age: 22.38 (SD = 1.60). The study 2 sample comprised 46 male and 73 female students, (three missing values), mean age: 22.01 (SD = 1.74).
We find that adherence to self-transcendence values positively predicts a social-responsibility driven motivation to study, namely wanting to study to help improve society. This, in turn, predicts the adoption of study-related mastery-approach achievement goals, characterized by a desire to understand course material. These learning-oriented goals negatively predict the acceptance of cheating. Study 2 also reveals that exposing individuals to representations of society characterized by opposing self-enhancement values of power and achievement is sufficient to render non-significant the negative relation between self-transcendence values and acceptance of cheating.
The theoretical and practical significance of understanding motivational connections between higher-order life values and context-specific acceptance of dishonest behaviors is discussed.
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