Social Relationship Factors Affecting Cheating Behaviour of Hong Kong and Mainland Chinese Business Students

Numerous Western studies have examined individual or contextual factors affecting students’ cheating behaviour (Anderman and Murdock 2007; McCabe, Butterfield, and Trevino 2001; Whitley 1998). But many of these variables were stable demographic or well-researched academic factors. Some findings were inconsistent (Whitley 1998). It is useful to examine variables that effective approaches can be developed to prevent student cheating. Researchers notice the importance of social motivational factors measuring teacher-student and peer relationships in the learning environment (Murdock, Hale and Weber 2001; Murdock, Miller and Kohlhardt, 2004; Murdock, Miller and Goetzinger 2007).