The Relationship betweenReligiosity/Religious Attitude and Cheatingin Exams among University Students

The purpose of the present study is to review the relationship between religiosity/religious attitude and tendency to cheating in exams among university students. This research is descriptive-correlational and its statistical population involves all the students (around 5000) at the faculty of humanities at Islamic Āzād University of Qom in 2019. Using Morgan table, 360 students were chosen by stratified random sampling and they answered to 3 Questionnaires including religious attitude designed by Barāheni, religiosity designed by Glock & Stark, and tendency to cheating designed by Savāri (2012). The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between religiosity/religious attitude and tendency to cheating in exams. Moreover, there is a negative relationship between subcategories of religiosity and tendency to cheating. The results of regression analysis showed that both variables of religiosity and religious attitude have the potential to predict the tendency to cheating and just the consequential aspect of religiosity among all its aspects could negatively prediction in this regard. The results of the test showed that there is a significant difference between boys and girls in terms of their tendency to cheat and that girls have a higher average. According to the results, it is suggested that by providing education in line with fostering religious beliefs and awareness and religious attitude among university students, we pave the way to decrease cheating in educational fields.