Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals.

Duckworth, Angela; Peterson, Christopher; Matthews, Michael D.; Kelly, Dennis R.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1087

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

2007

DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1087

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Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals.

Angela Duckworth

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Christopher Peterson

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Michael D. Matthews

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Abstract: The importance of intellectual talent to achievement in all professional domains is well established, but less is known about other individual differences that predict success. The authors tested the importance of 1 noncognitive trait: grit. Defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, grit accounted for an average of 4% of the variance in success outcomes, including educational attainment among 2 samples of adults (N=1,545 and N=690), grade point average among Ivy League undergraduates (N=138), re… Show more

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“…Among the academic performance criteria grit was approximately as strongly related to college GPA ( k = 30, N = 10,526, ρ = .17, SD ρ = .10) as it was to high school GPA ( k = 17, N = 6,364, ρ = .16, SD ρ = .14). Contrary to early assertions by Duckworth et al (2007) that both facets predicted success outcomes equally well, the perseverance facet of grit exhibited much stronger relations with all academic performance criteria than the consistency facet. For example, perseverance correlated at ρ = .26 ( k = 11, N = 5,221, SD ρ = .12) with overall academic performance while consistency correlated at only ρ = .10 (k = 11, N = 5,221, SD ρ = .02).…”

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Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature.

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Tynan

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Harms

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2017

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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“…Among the academic performance criteria grit was approximately as strongly related to college GPA ( k = 30, N = 10,526, ρ = .17, SD ρ = .10) as it was to high school GPA ( k = 17, N = 6,364, ρ = .16, SD ρ = .14). Contrary to early assertions by Duckworth et al (2007) that both facets predicted success outcomes equally well, the perseverance facet of grit exhibited much stronger relations with all academic performance criteria than the consistency facet. For example, perseverance correlated at ρ = .26 ( k = 11, N = 5,221, SD ρ = .12) with overall academic performance while consistency correlated at only ρ = .10 (k = 11, N = 5,221, SD ρ = .02).…”

Section: Resultscontrasting

confidence: 99%

Much ado about grit: A meta-analytic synthesis of the grit literature.

Credé

¹

,

Tynan

²

,

Harms

³

2017

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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“…Similar results, although scant and confined to traditional HE environments, have been reported by Broghammer (2017) and Rogalski (2018), both of whom revealed that grit was unable to significantly predict retention from one academic period to the next. For the most part, though, the results reported in the current paper differ from those commonly cited in grit literature, which reports significant relationships between retention and grit (Bowman et al, 2019;Duckworth et al, 2007;Duckworth & Quinn, 2009;Saunders-Scott et al, 2018).…”

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Grit, Retention and Student Success in a South African Distance Education Institution: a Postgraduate Triad?

Young

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Fynn

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2024

Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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“…The current study justifies the need to explore grit and resilience as two separate constructs that are strongly correlated as findings revealed that students who score high on grit are significantly more resilient than students who score low on grit. These findings contradict previous research, but could be explained by research that suggests that resilience is a component of grit (Duckworth et al, 2007, Duckworth and Quinn, 2009) and advocates the strong interrelated nature between the two constructs.…”

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All That Glitters Is Not Grit: Three Studies of Grit in University Students

Kannangara

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Allen

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Waugh

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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