A Model to Explain the Relationship of the Big Five Personality Factors and Academic Dishonesty with Mediating Role of Academic Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Academic Self-Esteem among Students

The aim of the present study is to examine the effect of the big five personality factors (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience) on academic dishonesty with the mediating role of academic self-efficacy beliefs and academic self-esteem. The participants of this study are Including 400 students of the Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz who were selected of them by a multi-stage random sampling method. The instruments were the big five personality Inventory of Goldberg, Patrik academic self-efficacy beliefs scale, Rosenberg academic self-esteem scale redeploying and Khamesan & Amiri academic dishonesty scale. The proposed model of the relationship between variables was tested using structural equations models. the results showed that some of the direct paths) neuroticism with self-efficacy beliefs and also conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience with academic self-esteem) were significant. Also results showed that indirect paths of conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness to experience on academic dishonesty paths through academic self-efficacy beliefs and academic self-esteem was significant.