Examining the unique and combined effects of grit, trait self-control, and conscientiousness in predicting motivation for academic goals: A commonality analysis

Werner, Kaitlyn M.; Milyavskaya, Marina; Klimo, Rebecca; Levine, Shelby L.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2019.06.003

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“…Individuals with high scores in grit measurement do not stray from their goals, even without positive feedback . Moreover, grit is also related to or overlaps with self-control (Credé et al, 2017;Vazsonyi et al, 2018;Werner et al, 2019), yet it differs from self-control or self-regulation Duckworth and Gross, 2014). According to Duckworth and Gross (2014), self-control entails the ability to sustain focus on a present task and to desist from distractions, more consistent with avoidance systems; grit, on the other hand, is best understood as an ability to pursue long-term goals and is related to the approach motivation system.…”

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Longitudinal Invariance Analysis of the Short Grit Scale in Chinese Young Adults

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The current study examined the longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) in a survey sample of Chinese young adults (N = 233, 48.9% male, mean age = 19.36 years, SD = 0.90 years) who completed the GritS twice over a 3-month interval. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the LMI of the GritS across time. Results showed that the GritS has strict longitudinal invariance (i.e., equality of factor patterns, factor loadings, item intercepts, and item uniqueness for all items) over time. Additionally, the internal consistency indices of the GritS were acceptable across time, the stability coefficients over time were moderate, and latent factor means did not differ significantly across time. In sum, these findings suggest that the GritS has satisfactory longitudinal properties when used in Chinese young adults.

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Longitudinal Invariance Analysis of the Short Grit Scale in Chinese Young Adults

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“…For example, different research groups independently study related constructs such as intelligence (IQ; fluid and crystallized forms), executive functions, and short-term/working memory, with some work actually suggesting that these constructs are possibly isomorphic (see Jewsbury, Bowden, & Strauss, 2016;Oberauer et al, 2018). Other research programs suffer similar fates: Coping and resilience are studied independently of emotion regulation, reappraisal, and self-regulation; selfcontrol, impulsivity, grit, conscientiousness, and other related constructs have resisted integration only until recently (see Eisenberg et al, 2019;Inzlicht, Werner, Briskin, & Roberts, 2020;Saunders et al, 2018;Werner, Milyavskaya, Klimo, & Levine, 2019); ego depletion was proposed without considering research on fatigue and vigilance (but see Evans, Boggero, & Segerstrom, 2016;Inzlicht & Marcora, 2016;Lin, Saunders, Friese, Evans, & Inzlicht, accepted); and cognitive dissonance and related theories have been abandoned or repackaged as new ones .…”

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Promises and perils of experimentation: The mutual internal validity problem

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Inzlicht³

2020

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Experimentation is the cornerstone of the scientific method. Decades of experimental work in psychology, however, has yet to produce reliable and cumulative knowledge. We argue psychology as a discipline not only overuses experimentation, but too often uses it as a theatrical storytelling device. Rather than use experiments to facilitate valid scientific inference, psychologists cleverly design experiments to elicit the very effects they wish to observe, ignoring how these effects may or may not cohere with bodies of knowledge within psychology and across disciplines. This approach leads to ungeneralizable results and an unwillingness to accept and learn from failed, but potentially informative experiments. To make real progress toward understanding human behavior and the mind, psychology needs to embrace big-interdisciplinary (big-I) triangulation, which requires integrating theories, methods, and approaches from diverse disciplines and sources.

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“…This personality dimension is clarified by limited characteristics such as being well organised, cautious, selfdisciplined, accountable and accurate at the high end and being disorganised, impulsive, careless and undependable at the low end (Bell & Njoli 2016). Previous scholars have discovered conscientiousness as an antecedent or predictor of academic performance (McCredie & Kurtz 2020), motivation for academic goals (Werner et al 2019) and as a symptom of insomnia (Akram et al 2019). Deducing from the aforementioned research studies, it can be noted that there is scant evidence in studies that have examined how conscientiousness would influence HFU.…”

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The big five personality traits influencing habitual Facebook usage, life satisfaction and psychological well-being of Generation Y students

Maziriri

2020

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

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This research determined five big personality traits that influenced South African Generation Y students’ habitual use of Facebook, life satisfaction and psychological well-being. The research embraced a quantitative approach, and a structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from Generation Y students. The data were analysed using Smart PLS software version 3.2.7 for partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). Neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeableness had positive and significant influences on habitual Facebook usage (HFU). However, conscientiousness seemed to have a positive yet insignificant relationship with HFU. Habitual use of Facebook has been found to have a positive and significant impact on life satisfaction and psychological well-being. It was also determined that life satisfaction positively and significantly influences psychological well-being. The exogenous-to-endogenous outcomes from the structural model coincided with most of prior study’s findings. Therefore, in the light of the associated literature, the findings were discussed. This study is intended to add a fresh understanding to the current body of Africa’s personality, psychology and social media literature – a context that has received little research attention in developing nations.

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Examining the unique and combined effects of grit, trait self-control, and conscientiousness in predicting motivation for academic goals: A commonality analysis

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Cited by 40 publications

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Longitudinal Invariance Analysis of the Short Grit Scale in Chinese Young Adults

Longitudinal Invariance Analysis of the Short Grit Scale in Chinese Young Adults

Promises and perils of experimentation: The mutual internal validity problem

The big five personality traits influencing habitual Facebook usage, life satisfaction and psychological well-being of Generation Y students

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