Perception, types and control measures of corruption by gender, academic year and faculty that university students belong

Authors

  • Luis Vicuña P. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Héctor Hernández V. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Mildred Paredes T. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • José C. Rivera B. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • José Ríos D. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Christian Santillana P. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
  • Jenny Torres M. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v9i2.4021

Keywords:

corruption, attribution, concepts of corruption, types of corruption, solutions to the corruption

Abstract

The present study deals with the form like the college student they conceptuan to the corruption, identifies corrupt acts within its faculty and propose solutions, in function to sex, cycle and academic faculty to which they belong. The sample was of 931 representative to the 0,03 of error margin, distributed by academic faculties. The selected sample randomly, answered a questionnaire of three questions, previously validated semantically; soon in greater groups of ten students it was not talked about his answer with the intention of knowing the trustworthiness the same ones, finding a correlation of the 0,90 between the opinions deepened in the dynamic session with his answers written in the questionnaire. They excel results, with respect to the concept of the corruption: 8% say that it is transgression of norms, to 11% abuse of office, 15% like a crime, for 9% is a disease, for 37% beneficial personnel. Between the perceived corrupt acts they attribute to the abuse authority of the bureaucracy 33%, 9% to illicit enrichment and students who pay briberies respectively, 8% abuse authority of the educational one. In the solutions to control the corruption they propose: 19% education in values, 13% controlling, 8% transparency, change of system, individual change and awareness, respectively, 7% application of restrictive measures. These data differ in function to sex neither to the cycle nor to the academic faculty to which they belong.

Author Biographies

  • Luis Vicuña P., Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
    Docente Principal, Facultad de Psicología de la UNMSM.
  • Héctor Hernández V., Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
    Docente Asociado, Facultad de Psicología de la UNMSM.
  • Mildred Paredes T., Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
    Docente Asociado, Facultad de Psicología de la UNMSM.
  • José C. Rivera B., Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú
    Docente Asociado, Facultad de Psicología de la UNMSM.

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Published

2006-12-29

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Section

Investigaciones

How to Cite

Vicuña P., L., Hernández V., H., Paredes T., M., Rivera B., J. C., Ríos D., J., Santillana P., C., & Torres M., J. (2006). Perception, types and control measures of corruption by gender, academic year and faculty that university students belong. Revista De Investigación En Psicología, 9(2), 65-91. https://doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v9i2.4021