Assessing construct validity of the Grit-S in Chinese employees

Chuxian Zhong; Meng Cheng Wang; Yiyun Shou; Fen Ren; Xintong Zhang; Mingshu Li; Wendeng Yang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209319

Assessing construct validity of the Grit-S in Chinese employees

Chuxian Zhong, Meng Cheng Wang^*, Yiyun Shou, Fen Ren, Xintong Zhang, Mingshu Li, Wendeng Yang

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This research examined the psychometric properties and construct validity of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) in Chinese insurance employees (N = 2,363; 37% males; mean age = 35.14). Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to determine the factor structure of the Grit-S. The resulting model was tested by multi-group CFA for the factorial invariance of the Grit-S across genders and age groups. Results showed that the Grit-S could be best explained by a two-factor model containing consistency of interest (α = .70) and perseverance of effort (α = .75). The factor model was equivalent across genders and age groups. The scores of the Grit-S were significantly correlated with external criteria variables including mental wellbeing and job performance. Overall, our findings suggested that the Grit-S can be a promising assessment of the grit trait in Chinese employees.

Original language	English
Article number	e0209319
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	13
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209319
Publication status	Published - Dec 2018

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