Individual and Organizational Predictors of the Ethicality of Graduate Students’ Responses to Research Integrity Issues

摘要: The development of effective means to enhance research integrity by universities requires baseline measures individual, programmatic, and institutional factors known contribute ethical decision making behavior. In the present study, master’s thesis Ph.D. students in fields biological, health social sciences at a extensive university completed field appropriate measure rated seriousness issue importance for implementing selection response. addition they were asked rate their perceptions of the departmental climate complete utilitarian formalistic predisposition. Female found be more compared male students. was related participants’ predisposition overall perception organizational climate; however, formalism only individual predictor reach statistical significance none subscales significantly correlated ethicality. Participants’ ratings with carrying out selected response but neither predictive ethicality responses. implications these findings training programs environments graduate ethics are discussed.