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Correlates of Grit among Adults


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Life is always full of hurdles and very challenging and when we set a long term goal in life and go for that it becomes very boring also. In such situation grit play a significant role and work as a weapon. Grit, basically includes consistency of interest and perseverance of efforts for long term goal. In this study we have four variables (hope, self-control, self-efficacy , orientation to happiness) that relate to gritty behavior. But the objective here is that how much these variables relate and contribute in grit among adults. For this purpose, a sample of 300 participants (aged 18-30 years) was purposely selected. The scale of Grit, Hope, Self-efficacy , Self-control and Orientation to Happiness were administered and scored as per the manual. Results found that self-control emerged as the single most potent predictor of grit accounting for 18.3% of variance while self-efficacy , hope and pleasure jointly account for 13.3% of variance.

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hope, self-efficacy , self-control, orientation to happiness (meaning, pleasure &engagement), grit
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Sunil Kumar
Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&TUniversity, Hisar , Haryana, India
Manju
Department of Applied Psychology, GJUS&TUniversity, Hisar , Haryana, India

Abstract


Life is always full of hurdles and very challenging and when we set a long term goal in life and go for that it becomes very boring also. In such situation grit play a significant role and work as a weapon. Grit, basically includes consistency of interest and perseverance of efforts for long term goal. In this study we have four variables (hope, self-control, self-efficacy , orientation to happiness) that relate to gritty behavior. But the objective here is that how much these variables relate and contribute in grit among adults. For this purpose, a sample of 300 participants (aged 18-30 years) was purposely selected. The scale of Grit, Hope, Self-efficacy , Self-control and Orientation to Happiness were administered and scored as per the manual. Results found that self-control emerged as the single most potent predictor of grit accounting for 18.3% of variance while self-efficacy , hope and pleasure jointly account for 13.3% of variance.

Keywords


hope, self-efficacy , self-control, orientation to happiness (meaning, pleasure &engagement), grit

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2022%2Fv13i2%2F215356