Gender, Contingencies of Self-Worth, and Achievement Goals as Predictors of Academic Cheating in a Controlled Laboratory Setting

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Title:

“Gender, Contingencies of Self-Worth, and Achievement Goals as Predictors of Academic Cheating in a Controlled Laboratory Setting”

Study Objective:

In this research, experimenters were curious as to see how gender differences related to cheating. Based off this the experimenters further evaluated how competition and virtue played an affect on how little or how much one might cheat. As noted in the title, “Gender, Contingencies of Self-Worth, and Achievement Goals as Predictors of Academic Cheating in a Controlled Laboratory Setting,” these contingencies were the focal point of this study. Studies before had been based off self-report and observation, which created a problem and produced errors as to the rate of cheating. So, in this study the experimenters wanted to examine cheating based off a laboratory setting. Before the experiment, the experimenters hypothesized that cheating aroused from maintaining self-worth. Another hypothesis was that if competition was brought into play while taking a test, self-worth would be needed to be maintained and would predict more cheating as well as performance-approach goals. But, it was also hypothesized that if mastery goals were being approached, this would predict less cheating as well as virtue. (Yu Niiya, Robert Ballantyne, Michael S. North, and Jennifer Crocker, 2008)

Methods:

For this study, the experimenters used 70 college students. Within those 70 students, 38 of the participants were male and 32 of the participants were females. When the experiment began, each participant sat across from a confederate and began to take a pretest. After the pretest was completed the participants were then given a test, which consisted of 7 questions that could be solved and 5 qu...

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...nt. This produces your self-presentation as good which is what most of us seek. For women though, the social influence from the confederate seemingly did not matter. Maybe that is due to the inner belief they have of their own self-concept. If they cheat, they might be lowering their self-esteem and questioning their self-concept. Maybe they’re even questioning their possible selves and using that as a way to keep them from cheating. This could be relevant to my reader’s lives because this might be the thought process they undergo when they are tempted to cheat on a test or life in general.

References:

Niiya, Yu , Ballantyne, Robert , North, Michael S. and Crocker, Jennifer(2008) 'Gender, Contingencies

of Self-Worth, and Achievement Goals as Predictors of Academic Cheating in a Controlled Laboratory Setting', Basic

and Applied Social Psychology, 30: 1, 76 — 83

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