In the future workplace: how the Dark Triad influences unethical behavior through the Fraud Pentagon among accounting students.

Putting these findings together, a significant trend is apparent across all three Dark Triad traits: the consistent non-significance of motivation as a mediating factor suggests that, although motivation is conceptually a fundamental element of the Fraud Pentagon, in the case of accounting students with dark personality traits, unethical behavior may not be driven by perceived external or internal pressure but rather by cognitive evaluations of opportunity, rationalization, capability, and intention formation ( Srirejeki et al., 2023 ).

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