Gender-based differences in the impact of Dark Triad traits on academic dishonesty: The mediating role of moral disengagement in college students.

Autor: Lingán-Huamán SK; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru., Dominguez-Lara S; South American Center for Education and Research in Public Health, Universidad Privada Norbert Wiener, Lima, Peru., Carranza Esteban RF; Carrera de Psicología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Heliyon [Heliyon] 2023 Dec 06; Vol. 10 (1), pp. e23322. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 06 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e23322
Abstrakt: This study explores whether gender differences influence the components of the Dark Triad of personality and moral disengagement on the manifestations of dishonest academic behavior in Peruvian university students. Moreover, it evaluates how moral disengagement mediates the effect that the Dark Triad components have on academic dishonesty. The participants were 591 university students, aged between 18 and 40 years (women = 71.7 %; M age  = 21.5; SD age  = 3.60), to whom the Dirty Dozen Dark Triad, the Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale, and the Scale of Academic Dishonesty, which has 3 dimensions (cheating on exams, plagiarism, and falsification) were applied. The results reveal that only Machiavellianism has a significant and consistent influence on all dimensions of academic dishonesty, in both men and women, while psychopathy influences the dimension of plagiarism in both men and women and falsification only in men. In addition, moral disengagement affects falsification in both groups, cheating on exams only in the men's group, and plagiarism in the women's group. Finally, the mediating role of moral disengagement between the effect of the Dark Triad and the manifestations of academic dishonesty was not demonstrated.
Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(© 2023 The Authors.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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