The Impact of Alienation Through Neutralization on Students’ Academic Dishonesty

ABSTRACT

Dishonesty is a phenomenon that is often encountered in educational institutions. It indicates the existence of cheating done by students in the academics. One of the strong assumptions about the phenomenon of dishonesty in students in academics is the existence of alienation that causes students’ self-confidence to be low and encourage students to be dishonest. This article aims to determine the effect of alienation on academic dishonesty of second-grade students in vocational high school accounting skill competence through neutralization as an intervening variable the using General Alienation Scale, Neutralization Scale, and Cheating Scale and a development indicator. Subjects in this study were 218 students with data collection methods in the form of questionnaires and interviews. The results show that alienation does not directly affect student academic dishonesty, but has an indirect effect on student academic dishonesty through neutralization

KEYWORDS:

• Alienisation
• Neutralization
• Student academic dishonesty

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Luqman Hakim

Luqman Hakim is Lecturer at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in the international bussiness teaching and learning, economic education, accounting education, and shariah accounting and economic.

Yoyok Soesatyo

Yoyok Soesatyo is a professor at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in the field of Business and economic education, entrepreneurship and bussiness management. The analytical techniques that exist in my research is Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Some of my research has been published in the journal of education.

Laksmi M. Dwiharja

Laksmi M. Dwiharja is researcher in the field international bussiness, Economic Education, Accounting Education and Learning in Economics.

Albrian Fiky Prakoso

Albrian Fiky Prakoso is lecturer at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in Economics Educations, Education, Economics, Social Science.

Riza Yonisa Kurniawan

Riza Yonisa Kurniawan is lecturer at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in the international business, Economic Education, Literacy Economy, Assessment and Evaluation, Critical Thinking Skill, Learning Models.

Novi Marlena

Novi Marlena is lecturer at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in Economic Education, Model Pembelajaran, Human Resources Managament, Psikology, Operational Management, Strategic Management, Risk Management.

Irin Widayati

Irin Widayati is lecturer at Universitas Negeri Surabaya. Research interests in Economic education, Accounting Education, Assesment, critical thinking skill, learning models.