Justiça e desonestidade acadêmica: um estudo com estudantes do curso de ciências contábeis

Abstract

The main purpose of this study was to analyze the relation between the perception of justice in the academic environment and aspects related to the academic dishonesty of Accounting undergraduate students. The study sample consisted of 451 respondents by the survey method. The research findings show that the three dimensions of academic justice presented statistically significance, influencing academic dishonesty. When students perceive distributive, procedural, and interactional injustice, they tend, in average, to practice dishonest attitudes. The results suggest that the practice of academic dishonesty may be a way that students use to compensate the injustice perceived in the educational environment. Therefore, in the presence of injustice, dishonesty tends to be manifested. In other words, dishonesty can be the "student's justice" to alleviate distributional, procedural, and interactional injustice.