The underlying commitment factors influencing research ethics among graduate students in Tabriz University: a Grounded Theory approach

In the present era, ethics is the key concept. Development of information and communication technologies has effected all areas of human life and actor's ethical and professional life in scientific fields not exempt from these developments. Increased use of the internet and cyberspace has attracted the attention of scientists in academic research into emerging concepts such as computer ethics, translation ethics, knowledge ethics and most important of all research ethics. The purpose of this study was to investigate Predisposing factors for research ethics and method was a qualitative with an emphasis on grounded theory approach. Participants in this study were 12 graduate students at Tabriz University in 2014. In this study, a purposive sampling and the critical cases strategy was used. Data were collected through appointment interview method with emphasis on the information confidentiality of student's information. The central questions in this study were: What are the factors effecting noncompliance to research ethics? What are the consequences of noncompliance to research ethics? What to do? Based on Strauss and Corbin's systematic and analytical procedures, data from interviews were analyzed in three steps: open coding, axial and selective. Research validity obtained through peer debriefing, members control and self-monitoring. Results showed that personal factors (delayed gratification, instrumental attitude toward research and religiosity of researchers) and structural (incomplete educational socialization, lack of material welfare, lack of a non-material welfare, normative pressures of society, social learning, quantitative oriented higher education, poor systematic supervision, the negative attitudes of society and the scientific community toward students) are couragements not to follow the standards of research ethics. Doxa Cracy in the anomy as the central core is discovered.