New wine in an old bottle? A facet-level perspective on the added value of Grit over BFI-2 Conscientiousness.

ABSTRACT: There is emerging consensus that Grit's two facets-perseverance of effort and consistency of interest-are best understood as facets of the Big Five dimension of Conscientiousness. However, an in-depth investigation on whether Grit's facet offer any added value over more established facets of Conscientiousness is absent from the literature. In the present study, we investigated whether Grit's facets are empirically distinguishable from three facets of Conscientiousness as conceived in the well-validated Big-Five Inventory 2 (BFI-2), namely, Organization, Responsibility, Productiveness. Moreover, we investigated whether Grit's facets show different (and possibly stronger) associations than the facets of Conscientiousness with a broad set of external criteria (age, educational attainment, mon

SUBMITTER: Schmidt FTC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018017 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature