Short Grit Scale.
Grit-S
- What it measures
- grit; perseverance of effort; consistency of interest
- Length and format
- 8 items. 5-point Likert (not at all like me to very much like me); 2 subscales (4+4) (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Translated into 20+ languages incl. Spanish, German, Chinese, Dutch, Korean, Cambodian/Khmer, Portuguese
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- open with attribution
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- Reference
- Duckworth, A. L., & Quinn, P. D. (2009). Development and validation of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S). Journal of Personality Assessment, 91(2), 166-174.
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