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Short-Term Predictive Validity of Demographic, Affective, Personal, and Cognitive Variables in Relation to Two Criterion Measures of Cheating Behaviors

University of Southern California

William B. Michael

University of Southern California

For a sample of 148 community college students, the short-term predictive validity of each of 18 variables was examined in relation to each of two criterion measures of cheating behavior: (a) incidence (presence or absence) of cheating on an objective final examination in an introductory psychology course and (b) the amount of cheating on this examination. The following conclusions became evident: (1) level of academically related anxiety does exhibit a small but statistically significant correlation with each indicator of cheating, whereas the constructs of locus of control, need for approval, and achievement motivation do not; (2) self-reported grade point average displays an inverse relationship with cheating behavior; (3) each measure of cheating is negatively associated to a moderate degree with the actual score earned on a final examination; and (4) optimally-weighted combinations of selected predictor variables do yield slightly more valid forecasts of cheating behavior than does any one predictor variable alone.

Educational and Psychological Measurement, Vol. 43, No. 2, 467-482 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/001316448304300216


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