This commentary addresses debate over the factor structure of the Grit Scale in both its
original and short forms. Commonly (and in our own work), factor solutions are used to …

Grit—the tendency to pursue especially long-term goals with both passion and
perseverance—has been shown to predict high achievement in a range of individual …

Objectives Grit is a noncognitive trait that has been shown to increase monotonically
throughout adulthood and predict late-life cognitive performance. Less is known about the …

Introduced into the literature a decade ago, grit originally defined as perseverance and
passion for long-term goals has stimulated considerable research on positive effects …

Grit, defined as passion and perseverance for long-term goals, has received much attention
over the last decade. However, its dimensionality is still very much up for debate. The …

The current study examined the longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) of the Short Grit
Scale (Grit-S) in a survey sample of Chinese young adults (N= 233, 48.9% male, mean age …

In spite of a growing interest for improvisation in organizations, the microfoundations of
improvisation have not been theorized yet. Exploring these microfoundations, we study how …

Objective Two studies examined the relationship between right‐wing authoritarianism
(RWA) and religious fundamentalism (RF), and tested their unique contributions to meaning …

The allegedly new volitional-motivational personality construct “grit” is seen as both
theoretically and empirically relevant for a host of educational and life outcomes. In a recent …

Satisfaction with one's academic major is critical to a university student's development. This
study explores the interrelationships among thinking styles, grit, and academic major …