Investigating the Effect of Religious and Moral Beliefs on Academic Cheating of Students

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating educational cheating and student cheating in the framework of a causal model considering religious and moral variables.

The participants of the research included 300 people (134 boys and 166 girls) from Shiraz University, who used Gluck and Stark religiosity questionnaires, McCabe and Treviño's academic dishonesty scale, Boffard et al.'s academic goal orientation questionnaire, and Miltiadis' moral orientation questionnaire. completed The data was analyzed using structural equation modeling method by Amos software version 22.

The findings showed that all three variables of adherence to religion, academic goal orientation and goal orientation are negative predictors of academic dishonesty. Also, there is a positive relationship between the variables of adherence to religion and academic goal orientation, and between the variables of adherence to religion and moral orientation. Path coefficients for the variable of adherence to religion and academic dishonesty - 6/, the variable of adherence to religion and moral orientation 0.91, the variable of adherence to religion and academic goal orientation 0.94, the variable of moral orientation to academic dishonesty - 35/ and the variable of academic goal orientation to Academic dishonesty was found to be -0.58, all of which were significant at the 01/ level.

In general, it can be concluded that students' religious beliefs, adherence to moral values, and having a goal and motivation in education are effective in avoiding cheating in education, as well as being honest