How True Is Grit? Assessing Its Relations to High School and College Students’ Personality Characteristics, Self-Regulation, Engagement, and Achievement

By Katherine Muenks, Allan Wigfield, Ji Seung Yang, Colleen R. O’Neal. 2017

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

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What Shall We Do About Grit? A Critical Review of What We Know and What We Don’t Know (2018, neutral): “The apparent isomorphism with conscientiousness and strong overlap with other related constructs such as self-control (see Muenks, Wigfield, Yang, & O’Neal, 2017) also severely limits the contribution of grit to our understanding of success because the influence of conscientiousness on success has…”
A cross-cultural investigation on perseverance, self-regulated learning, motivation, and achievement (2019, background): “In particular, the effect of grit on achievement could be accounted for by self-control (see also Vazsonyi et al. 2019; Xu et al. 2013) and conscientiousness (Muenks et al. 2017; Schmidt et al. 2017).”
A CLOSER LOOK AT GRIT AND LANGUAGE MINDSET AS PREDICTORS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT (2020, background): “Consistent with previous research (Muenks et al., 2017; Steinmayr et al., 2018), a two-factor model indicated a better fit.”
Same Same, but Different? Relations between Facets of Conscientiousness and Grit (2018, methodology): “However, some studies used even shorter measures, for example, with four (e.g. Fleckenstein et al., 2014) or even two items (e.g. Muenks et al., 2017).”
Associations Between Grit, Motivation, and Achievement in High School Students (2017, methodology): “Most current work has ex- 1 The high school sample used in Muenks et al. (2017) is the same sample that is used in this study.”
Perseverant grit and self-efficacy: Are both essential for children’s academic success? (2019, background): “For example, Muenks et al. (2017) found that grit failed to predict high school and college students’ school performance (i.e., GPA) when other variables such as effort regulation were included in the model.”
Grit and language learning: construct validation of L2-Grit scale and its relation to later vocabulary knowledge (2021, methodology): “…found that grit is substantially associated with life satisfaction, academic achievement, and GPA while it was weakly related to ‘openness to experience’ and ‘extraversion’ (Clark & Malecki, 2019; Duckworth & Gross, 2014; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009; Eskreis-Winkler et al., 2014; Muenks et al., 2017).”
The Role of Grit in Education: A Systematic Review (2018, background): “Studies confirming the two-factor structure of grit revealed that “perseverance of effort” was a stronger predictor of academic performance compared to “consistency of interest” (e.g. Bowman et al., 2015; Muenks et al., 2017; Wolters & Hussain, 2015).”