The Role of Peers, Mastery Motivation and Self-Efficacy in Model of Academic Cheating in Indonesia Context

Abstract

Academic cheating that occurs in schools has been frequently discussed and reported. Academic cheating have often shown included copying the answers from their friends and use to obtain papers without crediting the original sources. Students have shown cheating behavior when facing a test, quiz or paper assignment. The dynamics of the emergence of academic cheating is complex and not easily explained by using only one factor. Academic cheating is a persistent and pervasive problem on senior high school. Researcher have suggested a variety of factors that influence academic cheating. This study is an examination of the role of peers, academic motivation and self-efficacy in academic cheating model. Peer pressure is what causes student to do things that are popular in order to fit in with others. Accordingly, it can be a very powerful driving force in the lives of senior high school student. Because peers is especially important during high school, pressures from other teens can be a driving force that influences the behavior of teenagers negatively like cheating behavior.This research is a quantitative study that tried to describe the behavior of academic cheating on 139 Senior High School students samples. Researchers used the path- analysis to describe model of cheating behavior. Sampling technique is multistage stratified random sampling that population from “class 12th” in Catholic Senior High School in Malang.The result showed that exogenous variable likes peers pressure (b = 0.331) & self-efficacy (b = 0.173) have significant contribution to occur of academic cheating in school. The model of  academic cheating have fit with predictor are peers, self-efficacy and mastery motivation (F = 8.725, p = 0.00). Researchers have identified a variety of factors that appear to be affected with academic cheating. That is situational factor like peers pressure and internal factors like self eficacy.

Keywords : Academic cheating, Self-efficacy, Academic motivation, Peers, Path- analysis,orkforce sizing, job-shop production, holonic model