Investigating Grit at a Non-Cognitive Predictor of College Success
By Patrick Akos, Jennifer Kretchmar. 2016
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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology
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Citations in the corpus
- A CLOSER LOOK AT GRIT AND LANGUAGE MINDSET AS PREDICTORS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE ACHIEVEMENT (2020, background): “Moreover, grit has been found to be positively related to academic outcomes and constructs such as academic achievement (e.g., Akos & Kretchmar, 2017), self-efficacy (Usher et al., 2019), engagement (Fosnacht et al., 2018; Hodge et al., 2018), academic motivation (Piña‐Watson et al., 2015), and…”
- Researching and Practicing Positive Psychology in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: The Past, Current Status and Future Directions (2021, background): “Grit has been found to be positively associated with academic outcomes such as achievement (Akos and Kretchmar, 2017), enjoyment, and willingness to communicate (Teimouri et al.”
- Perseverant grit and self-efficacy: Are both essential for children’s academic success? (2019, unknown): “…have typically been shown to favor female students (Duckworth & Seligman, 2006; Golsteyn & Schils, 2014; Usher & Pajares, 2008a; Zimmerman & Martinez-Pons, 1990), although some researchers have found no gender differences in grit (e.g., Akos & Kretchmar, 2017; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009).”
- The Role of Grit in Education: A Systematic Review (2018, methodology): “Only Grit-PE predicted GPA compared to Grit-CI in undergraduate DOI: 10.4236/psych.2018.915171 2963 Psychology university students (Akos & Kretchmar, 2017), grades in both high school and college student samples (Muenks et al., 2017), GCSE in high school students in the UK (Rimfeld et al., 2016),…”