RT Article
T1 Investigating the effect of academic procrastination on the frequency and variety of academic misconduct: a panel study
JF Studies in higher education
VO 40
IS 6
SP 1014
OP 1029
A1 Patrzek, Justine
A2 Sattler, Sebastian
A2 Veen, Floris van
A2 Grunschel, Carola
A2 Fries, Stefan 19XX-
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1824357176
AB In prior studies, academic procrastination has been discussed as an influencing factor of academic misconduct. However, empirical studies were conducted solely cross-sectionally and investigated only a few forms of academic misconduct. This large scale web-based study examined the responses of between 1359 and 2207 participants from different academic disciplines at four German universities to address the effect of academic procrastination on seven different forms of academic misconduct (using fraudulent excuses, plagiarism, copying from someone else in exams, using forbidden means in exams, carrying forbidden means into exams, copying parts of homework from others, and fabrication or falsification of data) and its variety. In measuring academic procrastination six months prior to academic misconduct, we found that academic procrastination affected the frequency of all forms of academic misconduct and its variety. We found the strongest effect of academic procrastination on using fraudulent excuses. Implications for university counseling and theory are discussed.
NO Published online: 14 Mar 2014
NO Gesehen am 02.12.2022
K1 academic procrastination
K1 fraudulent excuses
K1 fabrication and falsification of data
K1 Plagiarism
K1 cheating in exams
DO 10.1080/03075079.2013.854765