Academic dishonesty amongst Australian criminal justice and policing university students: individual and contextual factors

Table 2 Regression of gender, language background, justifications, perceived seriousness and peer engagement on academic dishonesty (n = 72)

Variable	B	S.E.	Beta	t	p
Individual factors
Gender (1 = male)	1.67	0.76	0.24	2.21	0.031
Language background (1 = NESB)	1.02	1.15	0.09	0.89	0.379
Contextual factors
Justifications	1.80	0.75	0.26	2.41	0.019
Perceived seriousness	−0.06	0.03	−0.27	−2.45	0.017
Perceived peer engagement	0.20	0.13	0.17	1.62	0.110
Constant	30.93	3.16		9.78	0.000
Adjusted R²	0.262

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