Date of Award

4-21-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Psychological Science, MS

First Advisor

Loretta McGregor

Committee Members

John Hall; Wayne Wilkinson

Abstract

Criminal profiling has become a useful tool for many agencies when investigating a variety of crimes. The proposed study used a questionnaire originally designed for criminal behavior and profiling, the Narrative Roles Questionnaire (NRQ), and observed if it could be translated to an academic setting pertaining to academic cheating. A pilot study involving definitions of the four narratives in the NRQ revealed that both the Professional and Victim narratives are more likely to be the narratives that academic cheaters would acknowledge. In the proposed study, participants were asked to write down a cheating scenario and fill out the full NRQ based on their instance of cheating. They then ranked each individual statement on a scale from 1-5 as possible rationales for academic cheating. Explanatory factor analyses revealed that the NRQ could not be used in an academic cheating context

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