ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2021
Putting the Goal Back into Grit: Academic Goal Commitment, Grit, and Academic Achievement.
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- Reliability and validity of simple Chinese version of grit scale for elementary school students.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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- Individual and class-level factors for students' management of homework environment: The self-regulation perspective.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Editorial: New advances in grit research: A multidisciplinary perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- University Students' Online Learning During COVID-19: The Role of Grit in Academic Performance.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Gendered difference in motivational profiles, achievement, and STEM aspiration of elementary school students.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Role of Students' Self-Regulated Learning, Grit, and Resilience in Second Language Learning.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Effect of Grit on Career Adaptability of Chinese College Students Based on the Self-Regulatory Processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Grit has recently been challenged for its weak predictive power and the incompleteness of its measurement. This study addressed these issues by taking a developmental, person-oriented approach to study academic-related goal commitment and grit and their effects on academic achievement. Using longitudinal data among Finnish eighth and ninth graders (n = 549, 59.4% female, age = 14-16), the longitudinal changes in grit and academic goal commitment profiles were investigated through latent profile and latent transition analyses. Four profiles were identified across two grades: High committed-persistent and moderate consistency (~17%), Moderate (~60%), Low committed-persistent and moderate-low consistency (~8%) and Extremely low committed-persistent and moderate-low consistency (~12%). The students in the High committed-persistent and moderate consistency profile had the highest academic achievement of all the profiles when controlled for gender, socioeconomic status, conscientiousness, and academic persistence. The results revealed that students' profiles changed between the eighth and ninth grades, with more than one-third of the High committed-persistent and moderate consistency adolescents dropping from this group. Further analysis showed that the profiles varied by educational aspiration, gender, and socioeconomic status. These findings imply that the combination of grit and academic goal commitment influences academic achievement; however, this combination is less common, unstable, and affected by internal and external factors. The study provided important implications on the weak grit effect and the ways to improve it.
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