Corruption and Typical Behaviors Among Peruvian University Students in the Andean Region

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10.2991/978-2-494069-25-1_21How to use a DOI?

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Corruption; Higher Education; Moral; Values; Puno; Peru

Abstract

Corruption is an emerging issue in the scientific field that has seldom been studied in Peru from the perspective of university students. The aim of this study is to identify the typical behaviors related to corruption among students of a public university in the Peruvian Andes (Puno). This is an exploratory study as it represents one of the first approaches to the phenomenon of corruption in the Puno region. The corruption normalization scale was applied to show the typical behaviors related to corruption. A total of 615 students from the Professional School of Administration participated, ranging from 18 to 22 years old. The results show that the typical behaviors related to corruption in the academic field among these students were the following: (i) recognizing to have given a false excuse to their parents to justify where they were (75.8%), (ii) admitting to acquire pirated products (74.3%), (iii) having given a false excuse to a teacher to justify their absence in class (52.9%) and, (iv) having kept something borrowed even though they knew they had to return it (40.8%). These findings identify the dynamics related to typical corrupt behaviors that merit being broken down if the aim is to prevent these behaviors that deviate from the norm from becoming natural, visualizing and addressing them when they have already been accomplished.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Úrsula Freundt-Thurne
AU  - Ambrosio Tomás-Rojas
AU  - Manuel Anchapuri
AU  - Eliana Gallardo-Echenique
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/10
TI  - Corruption and Typical Behaviors Among Peruvian University Students in the Andean Region
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on International Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities (CISOC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 213
EP  - 222
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-25-1_21
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-25-1_21
ID  - Freundt-Thurne2022
ER  -