The Mediating Role of Parental Non-Involvement to Goals of Progress With Academic Dishonesty in Students

Objective: This study aims to investigate the mediating role of parental non-involvement in relation to goals of progress with academic dishonesty in students. Methods: This is a correlational study in which the relationships between the variables of the proposed model were investigated using the structural equation modeling method. The statistical population included all female high school students in Semnan City, Iran, in the academic year 2020. Using the convenience sampling method, 350 people were selected as the sample. The academic dishonesty questionnaire (McCabe & Trevino, 1996), goals of progress questionnaire (Midgley et al., 2000), and family non-involvement questionnaire (Fan & Williams, 2010) were used as measurement tools. Correlation coefficients (using the SPSS software) and structural equation modeling analysis (using AMOS statistical software) were employed to investigate the variables of the academic dishonesty prediction model. Results: The findings indicated that the data fit the model, and the results showed that goals of progress had a direct effect on academic dishonesty and family non-involvement. In addition, family non-involvement had a direct effect on academic dishonesty. Finally, goals of progress through the mediating variable had an indirect effect on academic dishonesty. Conclusion: To increase students’ academic honesty, a set of internal, external, individual, and family factors of students should be considered.