Academic Dishonesty and Personality Traits in Undergraduate Students

Descriptive statistics from a study of 175 undergraduate students examining the relationship between personality traits and academic dishonesty. The data includes self-reported measures of the Big Five and Dark Tetrad personality traits, moral disengagement, and academic dishonesty behaviors. It was authored by Julia Sánchez-García and last updated on 2026-04-06.

Use Cases

• Correlating personality traits like extraversion and neuroticism with self-reported academic dishonesty.
• Investigating the mediating role of moral disengagement in the relationship between Dark Tetrad traits and dishonest behaviors.
• Comparing results from traditional versus gamified personality assessments mentioned in the study description.
• Analyzing demographic factors (e.g., age) in relation to psychological predictors of academic misconduct.

Strengths

• Includes data from 175 undergraduate students with a mean age of 21.88 years.
• Contains measures for multiple psychological constructs: Big Five, Dark Tetrad, moral disengagement, and academic dishonesty.
• Data is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

Julia Sánchez-García via figshare.

Collection Method

Self-report survey data collected from undergraduate students.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-06 17:36:58; freshness should be verified.