FATORES ANTECEDENTES NA ATITUDE DE ALUNOS DE GRADUAÇÃO FRENTE AO PLÁGIO

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Innarelli, Patricia Brecht
• Orientador(a): Sanchez, Otávio Próspero
• Banca de defesa: Tambosi Filho, Elmo , Bido, Diógenes de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: PÓS GRADUAÇÃO EM ADMINISTRAÇÃO
• Departamento: Gestão de organizações
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Fatores Antecedentes; Desonestidade Acadêmica; Plágio; Internet
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Background Factors; Academic Dishonesty; Plagiarism; Internet
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/5

The growing concern about academic dishonesty and their possible impacts on organizations and society has required special attention. Several studies indicate that the technology and in particular the Internet, can cause an increase in academic dishonesty and, in particular the practice of plagiarism. Types of academic dishonesty are listed in the literature as fraud, plagiarism, overseas aid and wire fraud. Among these types, plagiarism is becoming a major concern among higher education institutions in comparison with others (LOVETT-HOOPER et al., 2007). The existence of the intentionality of the individual is a central feature in studies of plagiarism, characterized as the result of an individual decision. From the standpoint of the Theory of Planned Behavior - TPB (Theory of Planned Behavior) of Ajzen (1991), the action of the individual is guided by beliefs (behavioral, normative and control) that influence their attitude to something that in turn leads to the rationalization of the intention to influence the behavior of the individual. This research aims to identify the antecedent factors that influence the attitude toward plagiarism among Brazilian students of higher education, distance mode. A systematic mapping of the literature on the subject identified more than 300 articles and converged on a number of 74 articles considered critical. Of these, a model was generated analysis that predictors of positive attitude to plagiarism (from certain influences received, the individual will consider the practice of plagiarism), the following constructs: Positioning Moral, Social norms and situational aspects. For model analysis, we used a survey research when, at this stage were referred, 1800 questionnaires, the students from different periods of the course of Directors of a private university. The rate of return of the questionnaires was 28.95%, totaling 353 valid questionnaires. For data analysis we used the structural equation modeling algorithm with Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique suitable for a small number of observations and when you cannot take parameters for distribution. The main findings of this research were: 41.8% of variable model explained the attitude of positive attitudes to plagiarism, and the identification of six significant constructs associated with the model being: Understanding (-0.102, p <0.05), Expected value (0.243, p <0.001), Ease (0.108, p <0.05), Pressure Situation (0.126, p <0.01), Relativism (0.272, p <0.001) and severity and likelihood of punishment (-0.255, p <0.001).