ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2019
Building Grit: The Longitudinal Pathways between Mindset, Commitment, Grit, and Academic Outcomes.
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- The relationship between grit, resilience and physical activity: a systematic review.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2025Pooled it
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- Development and validation of the Social Emotional Assets (SEA) scale: a culturally responsive measure of social-emotional competencies in emerging adulthood.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Psychological Resource Profiles and Learning Engagement Among Rural Left-Behind Adolescents in China: A Latent Profile Analysis.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- How parenting styles shape adolescents' test anxiety: the mediating role of academic grit.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Understanding student optimism through academic grit, social connectedness, and resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The interplay of growth mindset, social support, and academic engagement on adolescent well-being in China: a multi-cohort study.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Modeling the relationships between growth language mindset, L2 grit, and foreign language learning burnout.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Understanding the roles of grit and well-being in L2 achievement among Chinese university english learners.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The influence of positive parenting and positive teacher-student relationships on learning engagement of Korean middle school students-the mediating role of grit.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The Evolving Role of Grit: Shifts in Depression Risk Among High- and Low-Grit Individuals During COVID-19.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Intrapersonal strengths and interpersonal support: predicting academic buoyancy through psychological capital and growth mindset.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- "Agentic fuel" and "Social dividends": a mixed-methods explanatory study of optimism as a mediator between gratitude, mindfulness, and psychological wellbeing among Chinese university EFL students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- L2 growth mindset in AI-mediated language learning: effects of perceived usability and presence of generative AI chatbots.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Psychological resources for academic buoyancy: the roles of growth mindset and emotional intelligence in Chinese university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Grit and perceived teacher support associations with Chinese language achievement: the mediating role of emotion in Thai high school Chinese classrooms.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The role of grit in inclusive education: a study of motivation and achievement among preservice physical education teachers.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite academics' enthusiasm about the concept of grit (defined as consistency of interest and perseverance of effort), its benefit for academic achievement has recently been challenged. Drawing from a longitudinal sample (N = 2018; 55.3% female; sixth-nineth grades) from Finland, this study first aimed to investigate and replicate the association between grit and achievement outcomes (i.e., academic achievement and engagement). Further, the present study examined whether growth mindset and goal commitment impacted grit and whether grit acted as a mediator between growth mindset, goal commitment, and achievement outcomes. The results showed that the perseverance facet of grit in the eighth grade was associated with school achievement and engagement in the nineth grade, after controlling for students' conscientiousness, academic persistence, prior achievement and engagement, gender and SES, although the effect on engagement was stronger than on achievement. In addition, grit was predicted by goal commitment in the sixth grade, but not by the growth mindset in the sixth grade. Finally, the perseverance of effort (not the consistency of interest) mediated the effect of goal commitment on engagement. These findings suggest that grit is associated with increased engagement and academic achievement; and practitioners who wish to improve grit of adolescents may encourage goal commitment more than growth mindset.
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