Psychometric Assessment of the Short Grit Scale Among Chinese Adolescents

Li, Jingguang; Zhao, Yajun; Kong, Feng; Du, Shuailing; Yang, Shiming; Wang, Song

doi:10.1177/0734282916674858

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“…In the two grit scales, grit is presented in a hierarchical model—overall grit level is presented as a higher‐order construct and two facets (consistency of interest and perseverance of effort) are presented at the second level. This two‐factor structure of grit has been corroborated with both quantitative and qualitative approaches with various samples (e.g., Christensen & Knezek, ; Datu, Yuen, & Chen, ; Li et al, ).…”

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confidence: 56%

“…Most of the articles reported a cross‐sectional design (34 articles), followed by an experimental design (five articles; Cross, ; Farroll, ; Flanagan & Einarson, ; Kelly, Matthews, & Bartone, ; Wang et al, ), and a longitudinal design (five articles; Duckworth & Quinn, ; Duckworth et al, ; Li et al, ; Saunders‐Scott, Braley, & Stennes‐Spidahl, ; Zurlo, ).…”

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Examining the relationship between grit and academic achievement within K‐12 and higher education: A systematic review

Lam¹,

Zhou²

2019

Psychology in the Schools

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In recent years, grit has drawn increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners. As an important noncognitive indicator, grit has been used to understand individual success and performance in various fields. However, past empirical research has shown inconsistent findings on the relationship between grit and academic achievement. This study aims to review and synthesize past empirical findings on the relationship between grit and academic achievement. Forty‐four relevant articles involving a total of 60,133 participants met the inclusion criteria and were synthesized in this meta‐analysis. Our findings suggest that (a) overall grit level and its two facets (consistency of interest and perseverance of effort) are positively associated with academic achievement; (b) the association between grit and academic achievement is moderated by grade level; and (c) perseverance of effort shows the largest effect size on students’ academic achievement when compared with overall grit level and consistency of interest.

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Examining the relationship between grit and academic achievement within K‐12 and higher education: A systematic review

Lam¹,

Zhou²

2019

Psychology in the Schools

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“…In total, 234 healthy 12th‐grade students (122 females; mean age = 18.60 ± 0.78 years) from five local public high schools participated in this study, which is a part of our ongoing project to investigate the neurobiological substrates of adolescents' personality traits, well‐being and academic achievement in Chengdu, China (Li et al, ; Wang, Kong, et al, ; Wang, Xu, et al, ; Wang, Dai, et al, ; Wang, Zhao, et al, ). Seventeen participants were excluded because of incidental MRI findings (i.e., unusual cysts, three participants) or a lack of behavioral data (14 participants); thus, 217 participants (110 females; mean age = 18.50 ± 0.55 years) were included in our data analyses.…”

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Stress and the brain: Perceived stress mediates the impact of the superior frontal gyrus spontaneous activity on depressive symptoms in late adolescence

Wang

Zhao

Zhang

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Human Brain Mapping

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Identifying factors for the prediction of depression is a long‐standing research topic in psychiatry and psychology. Perceived stress, which reflects the tendency to appraise one's life situations as stressful and overwhelming, has emerged as a stable predictor for depressive symptoms. However, the neurobiological bases of perceived stress and how perceived stress influences depressive symptoms in the healthy brain remain largely unknown. Here, we investigated these issues in 217 healthy adolescents by estimating the fractional amplitude of low‐frequency fluctuations (fALFFs) via resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging. A whole‐brain correlation analysis showed that higher levels of perceived stress were associated with greater fALFF in the left superior frontal gyrus (SFG), which is a core brain region for cognitive control and emotion regulation‐related processes. Mediation analysis further indicated that perceived stress mediated the link between the fALFF in the left SFG and depressive symptoms. Importantly, our results remained significant even when excluding the influences of head motion, anxiety, SFG gray matter structure, and school environment. Altogether, our findings suggested that the fALFF in the left SFG is a neurofunctional marker of perceived stress in adolescents and revealed a potential indirect effect of perceived stress on the association between the SFG spontaneous activity and depressive symptoms.

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“…This scale includes two dimensions: perseverance of effort (e.g., “Setbacks don’t discourage me”) and consistency of interest (e.g., “My interests change from year to year”, reverse coded). Li and colleagues (2016) have validated the reliability and validity of this scale for Chinese participants. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for Study 1 and Study 2 were 0.76 and 0.82, respectively.…”

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The Influence of Grit on Life Satisfaction: Self-Esteem as a Mediator

Li¹,

Fang²,

Wang³

et al. 2018

Psychologica Belgica

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Improving people’s life satisfaction has become an important goal for many individuals and societies. In this study we investigate how grit influences life satisfaction. We propose that individuals’ self-esteem mediates the relationship between grit and life satisfaction. Study 1, with a sample of 243 employees enrolled in a business training course, found that an individual’s grit was positively related to life satisfaction and that self-esteem fully mediated this relationship. In Study 2, with 218 full-time employees, self-efficacy, self-control, and self-consciousness were included as mediators, but they did not exceed the power of self-esteem in explaining the relationship between grit and life satisfaction. Implications, limitations and future research directions are discussed.

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Psychometric Assessment of the Short Grit Scale Among Chinese Adolescents

Cited by 132 publications

References 11 publications

Examining the relationship between grit and academic achievement within K‐12 and higher education: A systematic review

Examining the relationship between grit and academic achievement within K‐12 and higher education: A systematic review

Stress and the brain: Perceived stress mediates the impact of the superior frontal gyrus spontaneous activity on depressive symptoms in late adolescence

The Influence of Grit on Life Satisfaction: Self-Esteem as a Mediator

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