الاتجاه نحو الغش الدراسي لدى عينة من طلبة التعليم الجامعي بدولة الكويت و علاقته باتجاهاتهم نحو بعض أشكال الغش الأخرى في المجتمع

Abstract EN

The study aims to explore the attitudes of the higher education students in the state of Kuwait towards the academic, ethical fraud, social fraud, business fraud and to identify the type of relationship between the trend of academic cheating towards other forms of fraud.

Therefore, a questionnaire is applied on a sample which involves 2000 students from the higher education institutions in Kuwait in the first semester of the academic year 2013 / 2014.

The results revealed that students’ attitudes towards cheating of various types in the community, is a positive trend with a medium degree.

There were significant differences between the means scores in the sample about their direction towards fraud (ethical, social, business), due to for males.

The variable of the higher education institute gender results come favoring the applied education students and private universities, whereas differences have been found in the students means towards the direction of business fraud for Kuwait university students.

In addition, significant differences have been found between the means scores trends of university students on fraud due to father’s educational level variable; for the benefit of the students whose parents’ education levels (secondary or less) and for the benefit of students who are educated by their mother (University).-While, the results showed that there are no significant differences between the means scores of the respondents about the trend for various types of fraud, due to the variable of the college type.