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

Prior to testing, the experimenter told the participants that the answer can be confirmed using the answer key after the test, and to the participants to receive five additional credits if entering the top ten. Percentage of the total score of the test. During the test, the experimenter answered the phone and left the room to keep participants and allies alone. At this point, the alliance kept copying the answer with the key of the answer and asked if the participant wanted cheating.

Many college students tend to view their own performance as an important predictor of self-worth (Crocker, et al., 2002). In their self-worthy model (Kuiper & Olinger, 1986), it suggests that negative self-assessment is a predictor of depression. According to their model, weakness of depression includes self-serious unified views, individuals are too dependent too much on negative attitudes to determine self-worth, students who wish to do well in their academic field are in their academic There is a tendency to spend more time on.

The accidentality of self-esteem is closely related to the purpose of verifying the person's ability in the emergency area (Crocker & Park, 2004) and students report that they spend more time on the activities related to the chance of self-worth (Crocker, et al., 2002). People always spend their time on activities they think are most valuable, and they feel worthless when they fail or fail in these areas. We must relate and interact with the higher level student's self-esteem, as well as the accidental academic achievement of self-esteem.

Unforeseen circumstances of self-worthy approach will expand or challenge existing self-esteem patterns in various ways. Crocker and Wolff believe that the importance of self esteem lies in the fact that it is in sharp contrast to decades of research focused on whether trait self esteem is high or low (Crocker & Wolfe, 2001) . In addition, they basically do not focus on whether people have low or high self-esteem in certain areas like academic ability or ability, rather than the level of self-esteem in people's particular field and this field It has predictable results