Sunday, February 21, 2021

Study challenges validity of the psychological "Grit Scale"

However, new data emerged calling into question the existence of grit as a single trait. Based on a sample of students from the Philippines, Jesus Datu and colleagues showed that while the Grit Scale does measure both consistency of interests and perseverance, these are two distinct and independent traits that do not form a single overarching construct.

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-validity-psychological-grit-scale.html


_- Steve

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