Pemodelan Faktor-Faktor yang Berpengaruh terhadap Kecurangan Akademik dengan Pendekatan Covariance Base Structural Equation Modeling menggunakan LISREL

Academic cheating remains a persistent problem in higher education. This study examines how pressure and opportunity influence academic cheating through the mediation of rationalization. This research aims to explain the relationship between pressure and opportunity. Primary data for this quantitative study were collected using a questionnaire completed by 65 students who had experience taking exams and completing academic assignments. The sample was determined using purposive sampling. The Covariance-Based SEM (CB-SEM) Covariance-Based SEM (CB-SEM) operated with LISREL 8.70 was used to analyze the data. The results show that pressure has a significant effect on academic cheating. Conversely, opportunity does not show a significant effect. Other results show that academic cheating significantly affects rationalization. The mediation test showed that rationalization successfully mediated the relationship between academic cheating and opportunity, but did not successfully mediate the relationship between pressure and opportunity. These findings indicate that efforts to prevent academic cheating need to focus on managing academic pressure and forming ethical rationalization among students, in addition to strengthening the academic control system.