Are competition and extrinsic motivation reliable predictors of academic cheating?

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue FEB, 2013, Pages

  Orosz, Gábor ^a,b,c   Farkas, Dávid ^a,c,d   Roland Lévy, Christine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE REIMS CHAMPAGNE ARDENNE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Academic cheating; Amotivation; Competition; Competitive climate; Extrinsic motivation; Hypercompetition; Intrinsic motivation; Self developmental competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878782626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00087     Document Type: Article

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