Does statistics anxiety impact academic dishonesty? Academic challenges in the age of distance learning

Eshet, Yovav; Steinberger, Pnina; Grinautsky, Keren

doi:10.1007/s40979-022-00117-w

International Journal for Educational Integrity

Table 3 Hypotheses testing results

From: Does statistics anxiety impact academic dishonesty? Academic challenges in the age of distance learning

Course Type	Constructs	H	Β	SE	CR	p-value	Support
POE	Statistics Anxiety→ Academic Dishonesty		− 0.03	0.05	-3.629	^***	Yes
	Personality → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.34	0.70	-2.157	0.03^*	Yes
	Motivation → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.36	0.63	-2.88	^**	Yes
	Personality → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₁	0.04	(-0.047; 0.583)		0.262	No
	Personality → Statistics Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₂	1.13¹	(0.022; 2.722)		0.010^*	Yes
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety		0.22	0.07	-0.145	0.884	No
	Students’ Achievement → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₃	− 0.05	(-0.677; − 0.005)		0.034^*	Yes
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₄	0.16	(-0.118; 0.433)		0.833	No
F2F	Statistics Anxiety→ Academic Dishonesty		0.10	0.08	0.211	0.833	No
	Personality → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.55	0.35	-3.113	0.002	Yes
	Motivation → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.36	0.21	1.847	0.065^~	Yes
	Personality → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₁	− 0.019	(-0.333; 0.109)		0.548	No
	Personality → Statistics Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₂	− 0.02	(-0.068; 0.645)		0.128	No
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.62	1.01	-1.892	0.059^~	Yes
	Students’ Achievement → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₃	0.037	(-0.417; 1.223)		0.869	No
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₄	− 0.03	(-0.137; 924)		0.119	No
ERT	Statistics Anxiety→ Academic Dishonesty		− 0.26	0.05	-2.659	0.008	Yes
	Personality → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.55	0.44	-3.332	^***	Yes
	Motivation → Statistics Anxiety		0.04	0.34	0.273	0.785	No
	Personality → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₁	− 0.04	(-0.808; 1.309)		0.850	No
	Personality → Statistical Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₂	0.51	(0.143; 1.207)		0.01^*	Yes
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety		− 0.46	0.85	-2.078	0.038^*	Yes
	Students’ Achievement → Motivation → Statistics Anxiety	H₃	− 0.04	(-0.948; 2.015)		0.850	No
	Students’ Achievement → Statistics Anxiety → Academic Dishonesty	H₄	0.66	(0.223; 2.841)		0.02^*	Yes

Notes: β = standardized regression weight; SE, standardized error; CR, critical ratio. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001
The confidence interval of 95% in Brackets
¹We conducted a Multicollinearity analysis, which showed that there is no multicollinearity between the research variables: VIF of all the research variables ranged from 1.048 to 2.730 (less than 5) and Tolerance ranged from 0.366 to 0.954 (above 0.2)

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