Grit Scale
Description:
Purpose
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The Grit Scale measures the individual's tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long-term
goals.
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Questions
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Eight items are assessed using a Likert-like scale (1 = Not like me at all, 5 = Very much like me)
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Sub-scales
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There are two sub-scales: Perseverance of Effort and Consistency of Interests.
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Domain
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Personality Measures: "Self" Measures
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Sample items
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"I am a hard worker." (Perseverance of Effort)
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"I often set a goal but later choose to pursue a different one."
(Consistency of Interests)
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References:
Scale:
Duckworth, A. L., & Quinn, P. D. (2009). Development and validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S). Journal
of Personality Assessment, 91, 166-174.
Research Findings:
Gritty individuals pursue especially challenging aims over years and even decades. Grit demonstrates
incremental predictive validity, over and beyond measures of talent, for objectively measured success
outcomes. For instance, in prospective longitudinal studies, grit predicts surviving the arduous first
summer of training at West Point, reaching the final rounds of the National Spelling Bee, retention in the
U.S. Special Forces and both retention and performance among novice teachers, over and beyond
domain-relevant talent measures such as IQ and physical fitness (Duckworth, Kirby, Tsukayama,
Berstein, & Ericsson, 2010; Duckworth, et al., 2007; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009; Robertson-Kraft &
Duckworth, 2012). In cross-sectional studies, grit correlates with lifetime educational attainment and,
inversely, lifetime career changes (Duckworth, et al., 2007).