作弊为什么会传染?社会损失和作弊态度的中介作用

为了解释考试作弊的"传染"现象，研究探讨大学考试情境中他人作弊对观察者将来作弊意向的效应，假设他人作弊通过社会损失和作弊态度的链式中介作用对观察者将来作弊意向产生效应。研究采用他人作弊问卷、社会损失问卷、作弊态度问卷、将来作弊意向问卷，对765名在校大学生进行调查。在控制了性别、年级、第一次作弊的时间和经常作弊的开始时间之后，研究发现：（1）他人作弊正向预测观察者将来作弊意向；（2）社会损失在他人作弊和观察者将来作弊意向之间起中介作用；（3）社会损失与作弊态度在他人作弊与观察者将来作弊意向之间起链式中介作用。研究为理解考试作弊的"传染"现象及其内在机制提供了有价值的视角。

Why Cheating Is Contagious: The Mediating Effect of Social Loss and Attitude Toward Cheating

In order to explain why exam cheating is contagious, this research explored the effect of others' cheating on one's own cheating intention in the college exams and assumed that others' cheating had effect on one's own cheating intention through the serial mediation effects of social loss and attitude toward cheating. A sample of 765 undergraduates were recruited for the study. They were required to complete a battery of questionnaires, including others' cheating questionnaire, social loss questionnaire, attitude toward cheating questionnaire, cheating intention Questionnaire. After controlling for gender, grade, the school time when first cheating happened and the school time when frequent cheating happened, the research found that:(1) others' cheating positively predicted one's own cheating intention; (2) social loss mediated the relationship between other's cheating and one's own cheating intention; (3) social loss and attitude toward cheating play a serial mediation role in the relationship between other's cheating and one's own cheating intention.