Associations Between Grit, Motivation, and Achievement in High School Students

By Katherine Muenks, Ji Seung Yang, Allan Wigfield. Motivation Science, 2017

156 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In the present study, we examined the extent to which grit’s 2 components, consistency of interests and perseverance of effort, overlap with future-oriented motivation, relate to other motivational variables including self-efficacy, task values, and goal orientations, and predict achievement in high school students (N = 190) controlling for motivational variables. Exploratory factor analyses revealed that grit was empirically distinct from, and relatively weakly related to, the future-oriented motivation variables future time perspective and instrumentality. The perseverance of effort component of grit was more strongly correlated with self-efficacy, task values, and goal orientations than was consistency of interests. When controlling for motivational variables, perseverance of effort emerged as a significant predictor of end-of-semester grades, but consistency of interests did not. However, self-efficacy was a stronger predictor of grades than either of the grit components. Together, these results suggest that grit is distinct from future oriented motivation, and that perseverance of effort is more strongly associated with motivation and achievement than is consistency of interests for high school students.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/00af8a1ed43b2ab38c42a88980ce54100f49d212

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

In Safety Research

In Social Psychology

Citations in the corpus

Perseverant grit and self-efficacy: Are both essential for children’s academic success? (2019, background): “For example, Muenks et al. (2018) found that the perseverance of effort facet of grit and self-efficacy both positively predicted high school students’ grades.”