Academic entitlement and counterproductive research behavior

This study explored whether academic entitlement predicts counterproductive research behaviors (CRBs), operationalized as study absences and careless responding. Academic entitlement has been linked with other forms of counterproductive academic behaviors, but most research has demonstrated this relationship using self-report measures. The current study employed behavioral measures of CRBs and found that academic entitlement (specifically externalized responsibility) predicted study absences and careless survey responding in undergraduate students. Academic entitlement was also predictive of careless task responding (but not study absences or careless survey responding) beyond personality and trait aggression.