Perseverance counts but consistency does not! Validating the Short grit scale in a collectivist setting

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Psychology

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Current Psychology

Volume

35

Issue

1

First Page

121

Last Page

130

Publication Date

3-1-2016

Abstract

The present research aims to validate the Short Grit Scale (Duckworth et al. Journal of Personality Assessment 91:166–174, 2009) among a sample of university (n = 220) and high school students (n = 606) from a collectivist culture (i.e., the Philippines) using both within-network and between-network approaches to construct validation. Our results revealed interesting cross-cultural differences in grit. First, grit was comprised of two distinct dimensions rather than as a hierarchical construct. Only the perseverance of effort dimension loaded onto the higher-order grit factor. Second, perseverance of effort was more salient in predicting key psychological outcomes (i.e., academic engagement and subjective well-being) compared to consistency of interests. This suggests that in collectivist cultures, the perseverance of effort dimension of grit is more relevant compared to the consistency of interest. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed. © 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1007/s12144-015-9374-2

Disciplines

Personality and Social Contexts | Psychology

Keywords

Perseverance (Ethics)—Cross-cultural studies; Diligence—Cross-cultural studies; Cognitive consistency—Cross-cultural studies

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