Academic grit scale for Chinese middle- and upper-grade primary school students: testing its factor structure and measurement invariance.

ABSTRACT: The Academic Grit Scale (AGS) is a novel measure of academic-specific grit. However, its factor structure and measurement invariance have yet to be thoroughly supported. The present study tested the factor structure and measurement invariance of the AGS with a large sample of early adolescents (aged 9-14 years) from China (N = 1,894). The bifactor model showed that the AGS was predominately accounted for by the general factor rather than the domain-specific factors; the parallel model from the AGS's one-factor model showed good fit indices; thus, the AGS should be described as a univocal solution and reported as the total score. Gender and grade measurement invariance were supported at a scalar level, warranting further mean difference comparisons. In addition, academic grit was significan

SUBMITTER: Lin R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10941363 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature