Gender Differences in Cheating Attitudes and Classroom Cheating Behavior: A Meta-Analysis

• Published in: Sex roles Vol. 41; no. 9; pp. 657 - 680
• Main Authors: Whitley, Bernard E., Jr, Nelson, Amanda Bichlmeier, Jones, Curtis J
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 01-11-1999; Plenum Pub. Corp; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Alcohol Education; Attitudes; Behaviour; Biological and medical sciences; Cheating; Classrooms; College Students; Educational psychology; Effect Size; Ethics; Females; Feminist Theory; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gender Differences; Higher Education; Interpersonal Relationship; Males; Meta Analysis; Miscellaneous; Moral Judgment; Plagiarism; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Sex Differences; Sex Role; Sexes; Social Networks; Social psychology; Social role. Sex role; Socialization; Student Attitudes; Student Behavior; Students; Systematic review; Universities; Social environment; Human; Social attitude; Sex role; University environment; Sex; Stereotype; Review; Metaanalysis; Cheating; Social behavior; Socialization; Judgment
• ISSN: 0360-0025; 1573-2762
• DOI: 10.1023/A:1018863909149

Conducted a meta-analysis that included studies of gender differences in college students' attitudes toward cheating, cheating behavior, and both attitudes and behaviors. Investigated changes over 4 decades. Attitudinal gender differences were relatively large, but behavioral gender differences were small. Mean gender differences in attitudes increased over time, but mean gender differences in behavior remained relatively stable. (SM)