This study found that: (1) performance avoidance played a partial mediating role between college students' psychopathy, Machiavellianism, and academic cheating, respectively; and (2) performance avoidance showed a full mediating role between college students' narcissism and academic cheating.
Keywords: academic cheating; dark triad; performance avoidance.
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