Personality profile differences in academic dishonesty and procrastination among Greek university students: A five factor facet-level latent profile analysis

This study explored the five factor personality profiles of 863 Greek university students at a facet level using Latent Profile Analysis and examined differences in relation to academic dishonesty and procrastination via an online anonymous questionnaire. Latent Profile Analysis revealed four groups of students: Overcontrollers, Re-silients, Ordinaries, and Undercontrollers. The results demonstrated that in terms of overall academic dishonesty and cheating, Ordinaries scored lower than Overcontrollers and Undercontrollers. In plagiarism, Overcontrollers scored higher than both Ordinaries and Undercontrollers. Finally, Ordinaries scored lower than all profiles in academic procrastination. Student classification based on personality profiles facilitates intervention planning as well as the implementation of measures for individual or group interventions with university students who are more likely to cheat and/or procrastinate.