Macale Loreana, Ghezzi Valerio, Rocco Gennaro, Fida Roberta, Vellone Ercole, Alvaro Rosaria
Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy.
Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
Nurse Educ Today. 2017 Mar;50:57-61. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2016.12.013. Epub 2016 Dec 18.
Considering the ethical issues related to nursing and that Ethics is an integral part of the nursing education in the degree course, one would suppose that academic dishonesty might be less frequent in nursing students than in students of other disciplines. However, several studies show that this trend of deceitful behaviour seems to be similar among the university nursing students and those of other disciplines. The aim of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of academic dishonesty in the classroom from a longitudinal perspective within a cohort of Italian nursing students. A non-experimental longitudinal design was used. All nursing students were recruited from the Nursing Science Bachelor Degree Program of a big Italian university in the centre of Italy and participants were part of an ongoing longitudinal research project which started in 2011 on nursing students' wellbeing. The results show that students get accustomed to taking academically deceitful actions. They come to consider their behaviours acceptable and normal, thereby stabilizing them, which increases the probability of stabilizing subsequent deceitful behaviours. The stability through time of academic cheating behaviours committed during higher education, within the study's timeframe, provides important perspectives into the establishment of rigorous standards of ethical and moral behaviours by the students.
考虑到与护理相关的伦理问题，且伦理是学位课程中护理教育不可或缺的一部分，人们可能会认为护理专业学生学术不诚实的情况比其他学科的学生要少。然而，多项研究表明，这种欺骗行为的趋势在大学护理专业学生和其他学科的学生中似乎是相似的。本研究的目的是从纵向角度调查意大利一群护理专业学生课堂上的学术不诚实现象。采用了非实验性纵向设计。所有护理专业学生均从意大利中部一所大型大学的护理科学学士学位课程中招募，参与者是一个正在进行的始于2011年的关于护理专业学生幸福感的纵向研究项目的一部分。结果表明，学生们逐渐习惯采取学术欺骗行为。他们开始认为自己的行为是可以接受和正常的，从而使其行为稳定下来，这增加了后续欺骗行为稳定的可能性。在本研究的时间范围内，高等教育期间所犯学术作弊行为随时间的稳定性，为学生建立严格的伦理和道德行为标准提供了重要视角。
