Academic Moral Civility: The Mediating Role of Academic Engagement in the Relationship between Academic Motivation and Academic Incivility

Background: With regard to research evidence, moral incivility has expanded in the educational environment one of these incivilities can be called academic incivility. The aim of present research was to investigation the mediating role of academic engagement in the relationship between academic motivation and academic incivility. Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational, that from the undergraduate community of Shiraz University, 421 students were selected using multi-stage random cluster sampling. The research instruments were Incivility Revision Survey in nursing education, Academic Motivation Scale and Academic Engagement Questionnaire. The data were analyzed by structural equation modeling using AMOS software. Results: The results showed that the model of this research has a suitable fitness. According to finding, the academic engagement had a mediating role in the relationship between academic motivation and academic incivility. In this sense, with increasing intrinsic motivation, academic engagement has increased and through this way, academic incivility has decreased. Also, extrinsic motivation and amotivation through decrease academic engagement result to increase academic incivility Conclusion: This study, by presenting a model of academic incivility, showed the role of motivation and academic engagement in academic moral civility.