Managing Academic Integrity in the AI Era: ChatGPT Usage and Plagiarism among Malaysian Undergraduates

Abstract

This study plans investigate the factors influencing plagiarism behaviour among undergraduate from Faculty of Busines and Communication at Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). With the advance of technology students are prompt to use AI tools like ChatGPT in completing their assignment. By referring of the Extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this study has examined the roles of attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, moral obligations, and past violations in contributing to plagiarism behaviour using ChatGPT. A survey was distributed with 331 responses. Data was analyzed using Statistical Pack for Social Science (SPSS). The findings showed that attitudes, perceived behavioural control, moral obligations, and past violations had an influence of plagiaristic behaviour using AI tools such as ChatGPT However, no significant effect was found for subjective norms. This confirmed that policies and guidelines to address the challenge of AI-assisted plagiarism was required to uphold academic integrity in a university setting.