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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Acad Ethics. 2017 Oct 13;16(1):71–87. doi: 10.1007/s10805-017-9295-9

Table IV.

Association Between Self-Report Within Each Misconduct Composite and Prior Ethics training, Region Where Degree Obtained, Academic Position, and Gender (n=224)

Misconduct
Composite
Prior ethics training
n (%)
Region Where Degree
Obtained
n (%)
Academic Position
n (%)
Gender
n (%)
Yes
(n=131)
No
(n=93)
P-
value
Middle
East/North
Africa
(n=185)
Western
(n=39)
P-
value
Master/PhD/
Postdoc/
and Other
(n=109)
Faculty
(n=115)
P-
value
Male
(n=89)
Female
(n=134)
P-
value
Circumventing Research Ethics Regulations 57
(43.5)
55
(59.1)
0.021 100 (54.1) 12 (30.8) 0.008 61 (56.0) 51
(44.3)
0.262 44
(49.4)
67
(50.0)
0.847
Fabrication and Falsification 23
(17.6)
41
(44.1)
0.000 61 (33.0) 3 (7.7) 0.001 37 (33.9) 27
(23.5)
0.083 31
(34.8)
33
(24.6)
0.099
Plagiarism 11 (8.4) 15
(16.1)
0.075 25 (13.5) 1 (2.6) 0.052 17 (15.6) 9 (7.8) 0.070 9 (10.1) 17 (12.7) 0.557
Authorship Misconduct 22
(16.8)
24
(25.8)
0.100 41 (22.2) 5 (12.8) 0.189 21 (19.3) 25
(21.7)
0.647 17
(19.1)
29
(21.6)
0.646
Conflict of interest 7 (5.3) 6 (6.5) 0.727 12 (6.5) 1 (2.6) 0.341 9 (8.3) 4 (3.5) 0.126 2 (2.2) 11 (8.2) 0.063
Other Research Practices 25 (19.1) 26 (28.0) 0.119 44 (28.8) 7 (17.9) 0.430 35 (32.1) 16
(13.9)
0.001 18
(20.2)
32
(23.9)
0.521
Any Misconduct 67
(51.1)
66
(71.0)
0.003 117 (63.2) 16 (41.0) 0.010 70 (64.2) 63
(54.8)
0.151 55
(61.8)
77
(57.5)
0.519