Keep going, keep growing: A longitudinal analysis of grit, posttraumatic growth, and life satisfaction in school students under COVID-19

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted students' daily life, but grit could have sustained students' wellbeing by helping them work hard and stay goal-oriented over time despite adversity. Gritty students may also have interpreted COVID-19-related adversity as an opportunity to grow, thus displaying higher levels of post-traumatic growth. In this study, 445 students in grades 6–12 (160 males, Mage = 14.25, SDage = 2.11) completed measures of grit and life satisfaction at the beginning (Time 1) and at the end (Time 2) of the school year, together with a measure of posttraumatic growth. A longitudinal SEM model shows that perseverance positively relates to posttraumatic growth, indirectly favoring life satisfaction at Time 2. In conclusion, perseverance, rather than consistency, appeared to have sustained students' positive adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic. Teaching students how to nurture this quality can have important beneficial effects for their wellbeing under adverse conditions.

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Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Learn Individ Differ

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Learn Individ Differ

Title: Learning and Individual Differences

Publisher: Elsevier Inc.

ISSN (Print): 1041-6080

ISSN (Electronic): 1041-6080

Publication date PMC-release: 23 June 2023

Publication date (Electronic): 23 June 2023

Electronic Location Identifier: 102320

Affiliations

[a ]Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Freiburg, Germany

[b ]Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padua, Italy

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[* ]Corresponding author at: via Venezia 8, Padova, Italy.

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Publisher Item ID: S1041-6080(23)00064-X Publisher ID: 102320

DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102320

PMC ID: 10288321

PubMed ID: 37366479

SO-VID: 5a858df7-1f64-4aa6-8782-7e3a8f87befe

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Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

History

Date received : 5 January 2023

Date revision received : 17 June 2023

Date accepted : 21 June 2023

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