Does Grit Have a Significant Impact on Mental Well-Being?

Nature has showered its blessings equally to all the human beings but still of these equal opportunities, equal capabilities provided to us some of us lead in life with pleasure, happiness, contentment and well being. The reason for these individual differences might be of our passion and perseverance known as grit. The present study is an attempt to find the level of grit and its effect on mental well being of 200 students appearing in different competitive exams. The findings of the study revealed that there was a high level of grit and moderate level of mental well being. Grit has moderately affected the mental well being of the students. Age and time spent on for study have no significant association with the grit. There were no gender differences for the scores of grit and mental well being. To being perseverant in sustaining interest and effort, and pursuing well-being through engagement seems to increase subjective well-being. To achieve the higher levels of grit individuals should pursue hedonia as their approach towards well-being.