The impact of medical students' attitudes towards group ethical norms on their academic achievement and classroom deviant behaviour: an empirical study from China
In recent years, medical students' absenteeism has been investigated in depth. Classroom deviant behavior is a richer concept than
truancy behavior, but there are few researchers on this aspect in China. There are still many issues worth discussing about deviant classroom
behavior. In this paper, questionnaires were given to 977 medical students to collect relevant data. After classifying the data, correlation analysis
and multilevel linear regression analysis were used to conclude that academic performance and group ethical norms have a negative impact on
medical students' deviant behaviors in class. Group ethical norms have a significant positive influence on academic performance, and descriptive
ethical norms and imperative ethical norms of group ethical norms have a significant influence on academic performance. The four dimensions
of academic performance: academic performance, task performance, interpersonal promotion, and social comparison have a negative influence
on medical students' deviant behaviors in class. Descriptive ethical norms have an inverse effect on medical students' deviant behaviors, while
imperative ethical norms have no significant effect on deviant behaviors in class. Group ethical norms as a category of ethical norms clearly have
significant implications for improving academic performance and reducing their transgressions in class. Reinforcing group ethics in medical
students will not only contribute to their professional ethics upon graduation, but also to their academic performance.
Keywords:
group ethical norms, academic achievement, classroom deviant behavior, medical education, China
Zang, Z. . (2022). The impact of medical students’ attitudes towards group ethical norms on their academic achievement and classroom deviant behaviour: an empirical study from China. Acta Bioethica, 28(2), pp. 257–267. Retrieved from https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/69015