Putting the Goal Back into Grit: Academic Goal Commitment, Grit, and Academic Achievement.

ABSTRACT: Grit has recently been challenged for its weak predictive power and the incompleteness of its measurement. This study addressed these issues by taking a developmental, person-oriented approach to study academic-related goal commitment and grit and their effects on academic achievement. Using longitudinal data among Finnish eighth and ninth graders (n = 549, 59.4% female, age = 14-16), the longitudinal changes in grit and academic goal commitment profiles were investigated through latent profile and latent transition analyses. Four profiles were identified across two grades: High committed-persistent and moderate consistency (~17%), Moderate (~60%), Low committed-persistent and moderate-low consistency (~8%) and Extremely low committed-persistent and moderate-low consistency (~12%). The stu

SUBMITTER: Tang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910368 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature