The Effect of Narcissism and AntisocialPersonality Disorder on Accounting Students’ Outlook on Professionally Unethical Behaviors (Statistical Population under Study: Metropolitan City of Tabriz)

The purpose of the present study is to review the relationship between narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, and the students’ outlook on professionally unethical behaviors. This research is practical and the statistical population consists of all 1125 accounting students of the 10th, 11th, and 12th grade in the metropolitan city of Tabriz. The research statistical sample includes 289 students who were chosen by simple random sampling within 2020-2021. For measuring the outlook on unethical behaviors and features of antisocial personality disorder, the standard questionnaire of Rajab Dorri et al. (2018), and for measuring the feature of narcissist personality disorder, the standard questionnaire of Mohammad Zādeh (2009) was used. Correlation and regression coefficients were used for data analysis and the results showed that there is a significantly positive correlation between antisocial personality disorder and the outlook of accounting students on unethical behaviors. Moreover, there is a significantly negative correlation between narcissism and their outlook on unethical behaviors.