ACADEMIC CHEATING AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN RELATION TO SELF CONTROL

Academic Cheating is a solemn issue in front of academic world. The present study has tried to explore the academic cheating among adolescents with different levels of self control. A representative sample of 300 (150 male and 150 female) adolescents from urban and rural schools of five districts in Haryana was randomly selected. Academic Cheating Scale by Kalia & Kirandeep (2011) and Self Control Scale by Singh & Sengupta (1996) were used to assess academic cheating and self control of adolescents. ANNOVA and t-test was applied to study significant difference in academic cheating among adolescents with different levels of self control. The study revealed that adolescents having very low self control were found to be significantly higher on academic cheating. No significant difference was observed among high self control and very high self control adolescents on academic cheating. However results differ for rest of groups.