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The Relationship Between Internet Ethics and the Big Five Models of Personality in University Students

Background: The widespread use of the Internet and Its convenient mechanism that provides easy access to data resources has made many types of unethical behaviors specially among the university students, easy. This study seeked to investigate the extent to which students at Payame Noor University in Tehran were engaged in such unethical behaviors and also the extent of unethical Internet behavior relationship with the big five personality models (Goldberg).Methods: This study was conducted using a survey - descriptive method. The data used in this study was collected from 250 students of Payame Noor University of Tehran. Then data was analyzed by using statistical software.Results: The findings indicated that personality traits such as intellect were significantly and negatively correlated with unethical Internet behavior and personality traits such as extraversion, agreeableness and emotional stability had less correlation with unethical Internet behavior. Also, according to analysis of varianc, we concluded that there was a significant relationship between personality traits and Internet triggered academic dishonesty. Conclusion: This research provided significant contributions to understand aberrant Internet behavior. In addition, organizations and relevant centers can use this research to formulate policies and rules related to scientific activities which are done by using computer and Internet.