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Academic Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation as Predictors of Academic Cheating

Ekwo, Jude Chukwudi, Douglas, John Ufuoma, Eze, Boris Ejike

Abstract

The study investigated academic anxiety and fear of negative evaluation as predictors of academic cheating, five hundred and fifty-seven (557) undergraduate students comprise of 255 females and 202 males with mean age of 20.96 and SD of 2.15 were selected using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Gardner and Melvin (1988) Attitude Toward Cheating, Cassady et al. (2019) Academic Anxiety Scale and Watson and Friend (1969) Fear of Negative Evaluation (FNE), the design for the study was correlational design, the researchers adopted Hierarchical Multiple Regression statistics with the aid of SPSS version (23) to manage the data to test the formulated hypotheses and account for the contribution of each of the independent variable on the dependent variable. Findings shows that fear of negative evaluation St?= -.251* and t= -2.765* at p< .05 negatively predicted academic cheating, Academic anxiety St?= .089 and t= .984 at p< .05 did not predict academic cheating among undergraduate student. Both independent variables at r= .243 were related to academic cheating, they contributed 5.9% variation to academic cheating and they jointly predicted the dependent variable at sig.= .024 at p< .05. Hence, school management should introduce a cause that will help the student cope with the fear of been evaluated negatively, because it will help to reduce the urge to of academic cheating.

Keywords

academic anxietyfear of negative evaluationacademic cheating.

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