Journal
JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 113, Issue 5, Pages 1038-1058Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/edu0000594
Keywords
grit; multidimensional item response theory; item factor analysis; cultural differences
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- National Science Foundation [1534846]
- Division Of Research On Learning
- Direct For Education and Human Resources [1534846] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Grit is defined as passion and perseverance for achieving long-term goals, including consistency of interests and perseverance of effort. Research suggests that there is no consistent factor or factors of grit across different ages and cultures, with perseverance of effort being the strongest predictor of academic performance in various samples.
Grit is defined as passion and perseverance for achieving long-term goals and consists of two proposed subcomponents: consistency of interests and perseverance of effort. It has become a much-discussed construct even though research on its underlying factor structure has produced inconclusive results. Furthermore, grit as measured by its most frequently used measure, the Grit-S, does not clearly define long term or include the word passion. In addition, only a few studies have looked at factor structure variation and predictive validity of grit in different age and cultural groups. We examined, using state of the art multidimensional item response models and structural equation models, the factor structure of both the Grit-S and a newly developed scale (LT-Grit scale) that specifies what is meant by long term. Participants included 1,250 U.S. high school students, 600 U.S. college students, and 500 Korean college students. We found varying factor structures for the Grit-S and a stable one-factor structure for LT-Grit, across age and culture. Perseverance of effort as measured by the Grit-S was the strongest predictor of grades in the three samples. LT-Grit predicted grades only in the U.S. high school and Korean college samples. Thus, there is no evidence that a consistent grit factor or factors exist across age and culture.
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