Students’ Attitude toward Corruption and their Behavioural Intention to Corrupt or not to Corrupt in the Future: The Philippines’ Context

The study intends to determine the correlation between students’ attitudes toward corruption and their behavior plan to corrupt or not to corrupt in the future. To support the study, related literature and studies were reviewed, and to carry out the study, the research methodology was proposed. The study used a descriptive correlational research design. To gather the data, questionnaires were used and the data were treated using Pearson r or Product Moment Correlation Coefficient to determine the correlation between two variables and Weighted mean was used to determine the level of cognitive, affective attitude and their behavioral intention. The study found that there is no significant correlation between cognitive and affective attitude and students’ behavioral intention to corrupt or not to corrupt in the future. However, there is a correlation between cognitive and affective attitudes. The next study is recommended to focus on other aspects such as social context and norms to predict the corrupt behavior of students in the future.