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+Short Grit Scale

Dweck (1999)

Dweck (2006)

Topic: Motivation - Growth Mindset

Study Used in: https://search.proquest.com/psycinfo/docview/2287022633/B8418598909E44ECPQ/8?accountid=14523 Links to an external site.

Description of Measure: 

The Short Grit Scale (Grit-S; Duckworth & Quinn, 2009) is a self-report measure of trait-level perseverance and passion for long-term goals. The Grit-S was adapted from the original 12-item Grit Scale (Grit-O; Duckworth et al., 2007). The Grit-O contains two subscales: Consistency of Interest and Perseverance of Effort. Item-level correlations are ranked within each domain and result in the removal of two items in each subscale that are most frequently below the median in prediction. The Grit-S consists of 8 items. 

Instructions: 

Please respond to the following 8 items. Be honest – there are no right or wrong answers!

Response options: 

It is on a scale from 1-5 such as: with such traits as 

  1. Very Much Like Me 
  2. Mostly Like Me 
  3. Somewhat Like Me 
  4. Not Much Like Me 
  5. Not Like Me At All

Items: 

  1. New ideas and projects sometimes distract me from previous ones.
  2. Setbacks don’t discourage me.
  3. I have been obsessed with a certain idea or project for a short time but later lost interest.
  4. I am a hard worker.
  5. I often set a goal but later choose to pursue a different one.
  6. I have difficulty maintaining focus on projects that take more than a few months to complete.
  7. I finish whatever I begin.
  8. I am diligent.

Scoring: 

  1. For questions 2, 4, 7 and 8 assign the following points:
  • 5 = Very much like me
  • 4 = Mostly like me
  • 3 = Somewhat like me
  • 2 = Not much like me
  • 1 = Not like me at all
  1. For questions 1, 3, 5 and 6 assign the following points:
  • 1 = Very much like me
  • 2 = Mostly like me
  • 3 = Somewhat like me
  • 4 = Not much like me
  • 5 = Not like me at all

Add up all the points and divide by 8. The maximum score on this scale is 5 (extremely gritty), and the lowest score on this scale is 1 (not at all gritty).

Citation: 

Duckworth, A.L, & Quinn, P.D. (2009). Development and validation of the Short Grit Scale (GritS). Journal of Personality Assessment, 91, 166-174., https://doi.org/10.1080/00223890802634290 Links to an external site.. 

Duckworth, A.L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M.D., & Kelly, D.R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 9, 1087-1101., https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.1087 Links to an external site.. 

Link to PDF: 

http://www.sjdm.org/dmidi/files/Grit-8-item.pdf Links to an external site.

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