Persevering with Positivity and Purpose: An Examination of Purpose Commitment and Positive Affect as Predictors of Grit

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• 作者：Patrick L. Hill ; Anthony L. Burrow ; Kendall Cotton Bronk
• 关键词：Grit ; Purpose ; Positive affect ; Emerging adulthood
• 刊名：Journal of Happiness Studies
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：17
• 期：1
• 页码：257-269
• 全文大小：387 KB
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• 作者单位：Patrick L. Hill (1)
  Anthony L. Burrow (2)
  Kendall Cotton Bronk (3)
  
  1. Department of Psychology, Carleton University, A515 Loeb Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6, Canada
  2. Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
  3. Department of Psychology, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences
  Social Sciences
  Quality of Life Research
  Sociology
  Philosophy
  Personality and Social Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-7780

文摘

Grit, defined as a passion and perseverance for one’s goals, has been consistently demonstrated as an adaptive resource across multiple domains. Less explored, however, are the correlates of and sources from which grit is derived. The current studies examined two plausible candidates for promoting grit, positive affect and commitment to a purpose, using college student samples from Canada and the United States. Study 1 confirmed our predictions that grittier students tended to report greater positive affect and purpose commitment, and demonstrated that these variables appear to be unique and independent predictors of grit. Study 2 examined these claims using two-wave data collected across a semester, and found that while both purpose and positive affect were initially correlated with grit, only initial levels of purpose predicted grit at wave two. In other words, having a life direction may help more than positive affect when predicting who is likely to become grittier over a college semester. Implications of these findings are discussed. Keywords Grit Purpose Positive affect Emerging adulthood