Abstract
The present study analyzed the influence of societal and individual factors on attitudes and intentions towards corrupt behavior in two samples of students and graduates of public and private universities in Peru. An exploratory sequential mixed research approach was used: the first qualitative study explored the conceptions and characteristics associated with corruption and identified the attitudes and intentions that do lead to corrupt actions. The second quantitative study analyzed the influence of the perception of the normative and political system, political ideology, and dark personality traits on intentions towards corrupt behavior. From the first study, three conceptions of corruption emerged: cultural corruption of greater complexity and from which direct corruption and structural corruption derive. Although attitudes of rejection towards corruption are evident, the figure of Robin Hood emerges as a positive nuance towards corruption in unjust or necessary situations. From the second study, after the validation of the Scale of Intentions towards Corrupt Behavior -constructed from the literature and the findings of the first study-, it was determined with the application of a path analysis that the Propensity to corruption would be influenced by RWA, Machiavellianism, Psychopathy, Transgression, Normative Weakness, Political Moral Laxity and Ineffectiveness of the Political System; while the Propensity to anti-corruption would be influenced by the Possibility of Change of the Political System. The complexity of corruption in contexts such as Peru one is discussed.
Translated title of the contribution | Studies on psychosocial factors that influence attitudes towards corruption and intentions to commit corrupt acts in Peruvian university students and graduates |
---|---|
Original language | Spanish |
Type | Tesis de Maestría |
Publisher | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
Number of pages | 120 |
Place of Publication | Lima |
State | Published - 2022 |
Keywords
- Corruption
- Transgression
- Intentions
- Dark triad
- Political cynicism
- Normative system perception