Volume: 19 Issue-01 (January-June) 2024

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HEXACO MODEL OF PERSONALITY, COUNTERPRODUCTIVE ACADEMIC BEHAVIOUR AND HEDONISM OF STUDENTS IN PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

ABSTRACT

The main goal of the present study is to investigate associations between HEXACO personality traits, counterproductive academic behaviour and present hedonism among students in private higher education (n = 422, 204 male and 218 female, Mage = 22, SD = 5,29). In addition to examining the association between personality traits, hedonism, and unproductive academic conduct, we also tested how present hedonism influences the relationship between honesty-humility, conscientiousness, and counterproductive academic behaviour. Self-report data were collected by using the 100-item HEXACO-PI-R, modified Workplace Deviance Scale and the Short version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory – subscale of Present hedonism. As hypothesized, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that honesty–humility, conscientiousness, and agreeableness negatively predicted counterproductive academic behaviour. In line with the prediction, present hedonism moderated the relationship between conscientiousness and counterproductive academic behaviour, such that the present hedonism - counterproductive academic behaviour relationship was stronger for students with high hedonism. These results emphasize the significant role of honesty–humility, conscientiousness, and agreeableness in predicting undesirable academic behaviour. The negative effect of present hedonism on counterproductive academic behaviour is more pronounced when associated with low conscientiousness.

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