Veríssimo Ana Cristina, Conrado George A M, Barbosa Joselina, Gomes Sandra F, Severo Milton, Oliveira Pedro, Ribeiro Laura
Department of Public Health and Forensic Sciences and Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.
University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil.
Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2022 Aug 10;15:2097-2105. doi: 10.2147/PRBM.S370402. eCollection 2022.
Maladaptive personality traits and some psychological functioning indicators have been linked to academic misbehaviour; yet their role is still poorly explored in medical students. This study aims to assess associations of academic misconduct with dark personality traits and psychological well-being.
Five hundred and ninety-one medical students attending the first, third and fifth-year at one Portuguese medical school replied to the Dark Triad Dirty Dozen, Ryff's Psychological Well-Being Scales and an original Academic Misconduct Questionnaire, using a cross-sectional design. Multiple linear regression was performed to assess associations.
Fifth-year medical students who scored higher in Machiavellianism and psychological well-being and perceived greater peer fraud and lower penalty for cheating reported more academic misconduct. The explanatory power of the model was 16.6%. Machiavellianism showed the strongest associations with cheating, while sex and age were not significant predictors.
This study offers relevant insights into how maladaptive personalities influence academic misconduct in medical students, and how this relationship is moulded by psychological and contextual factors. These findings can help guide institutional actions to foster academic integrity in future physicians.
适应不良的人格特质和一些心理功能指标与学术不端行为有关;然而,它们在医学生中的作用仍未得到充分探索。本研究旨在评估学术不端行为与黑暗人格特质及心理健康之间的关联。
一所葡萄牙医学院的591名一年级、三年级和五年级医学生采用横断面设计,回答了“黑暗三性格十二问”、赖夫心理健康量表和一份原创的学术不端行为问卷。采用多元线性回归分析来评估关联性。
在权谋主义和心理健康方面得分较高、认为同伴欺诈行为较多且作弊处罚较轻的五年级医学生报告的学术不端行为更多。该模型的解释力为16.6%。权谋主义与作弊行为的关联性最强,而性别和年龄并非显著的预测因素。
本研究为适应不良人格如何影响医学生的学术不端行为以及这种关系如何受到心理和环境因素的塑造提供了相关见解。这些发现有助于指导机构采取行动,培养未来医生的学术诚信。