The Role of Academic Stress and Religiosity on Academic Dishonesty

Abstract

Academic dishonesty is still an interesting issue in universities: especially many assignments and the weak level of religiosity among students as part of the academic campus. This study aimed to examine the effect of academic stress and religiosity on academic dishonesty among students at private Islamic universities in Indonesia. As many as 277 students participated in this study. Data collection tools use The Academic Stress Inventory, The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) 15, and The Academic Dishonesty Scale. Data analysis used multiple regression analysis to see the effect of two independent variables on one independent variable. The results showed that the hypothesis we proposed was accepted, namely that there was an effect of academic stress and religiosity on academic dishonesty. The effect value is 0.080, or about 8%. The religiosity variable has a negative equation line value, while academic stress has a positive equation line value. The implications of this study are discussed.

Keywords

• Academic dishonesty
• Religiosity
• Stress academic

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