Cheating and fear of negative evaluation

Autor: Louis S. Dickstein, Ann Neitlich, Regina Montoya
Rok vydání: 1977
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Zdroj: Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society. 10:319-320
ISSN: 0090-5054
DOI: 10.3758/bf03329348
Popis: Previous research on the personality correlates of cheating behavior has found that both need for approval and test anxiety are positively correlated with cheating. In both instances the explanation has been that subjects high on these measures cheat more because they are more concerned about negative evaluation and poor performance. The present study sought to extend this pattern of results to a direct measure of fear of negative evaluation. Contrary to the hypothesis, subject scores on the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale were found to be negatively correlated with cheating. An explanation is offered in terms of situational differences between the present study and previous studies.
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