The Evidence on Teaching

How true is grit? Assessing its relations to high school and college students' personality characteristics, self-regulation, engagement, and achievement.

Muenks K, Wigfield A, Yang JS, O'Neal CR · 2017

grade Ccritiqueindependentunclear
Sample
One high-school and one college sample in the United States; sample sizes not obtained
Population
United States; high-school and college students.
Design
Recorded rather than used. The paper is a multidimensional item-response analysis of grit alongside conscientiousness, effort regulation, cognitive self-regulation and engagement, but no numeric results could be obtained from an accessible source, so none are entered.
Key findings
Not extracted. The reported qualitative finding is substantial construct overlap of grit with effort regulation, cognitive self-regulation and engagement, and low incremental validity over conscientiousness and self-regulation - consistent with Crede et al. 2017 and Schmidt et al. 2018, both of which are entered with numbers.
Genetic confound
High if used - the design is cross-sectional and observational.
Replication notes
Directionally consistent with the two entered psychometric critiques.
DOI / URL
10.1037/edu0000153

Effects

OutcomeMetricValueMeasureTimingVsHorizonClass
Grit's incremental validity over conscientiousness and self-regulationnot extractedno numeric results obtainable from an accessible sourceunclearcross-sectionalnonenot-applicableunclear