Academic and Personal Dishonesty in College Students

Three studies used self-report measures to examine predictors of dishonesty across the personal and the academic domains of college students' lives. Dominance analysis methods (Azen & Budescu, 2003) determined the relative importance of predictors from a range of variables. High levels of predictability were found to be the result of a small set of dominant variables: dishonesty in the other domain, the impression management subscale of...