Elena Stănculescu

Affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and academic cheating behavior

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  • Elena Stanculescu Professor University Of Bucharest

Journal title : Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Publisher : Elsevier BV

Print ISSN : 1877-0428

Page Number : 723-727

Journal volume : 78

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The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between affective tendencies in embarrassing situations and cheating behavior in a sample of adolescents. Two objectives were addressed: first, exploring the relationship between cheating behavior and shame-proneness, guilt-proneness, externalization, and detachment; second, analyzing the mediating role of detachment in the relationship between externalization and cheating behavior. The results showed positive correlations between the cheating behavior and externalization and detachment, a negative correlation with guilt, and no relation with shame. It was confirmed the mediating role of detachment. Implications for educators were discussed, emphasizing the importance of stimulation of students’ moral rules understanding.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.04.383

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