期刊名称:Social Sciences and Education Research Review
印刷版ISSN:2392-9863
电子版ISSN:2393-1264
出版年度:2016
卷号:3
期号:2
页码:13
出版社:Editura Sitech
摘要:Grit is explaining in Dictionary of the Turkish language Association asdetermination and desire to have identified the level of long-term goals. Duckworth,Peterson, Matthews, and Kelly (2007) are definiting it as, perseverance and passion forLong-Term Goals. In addition to stating that grit is an important factor in measuringthe intelligence and the success. At the same time they have stressed that the grit ismuch more important predictors of success. Even Duckworth and Quinn (2009)argued that grit is more effective than intelligence scores for explainig the success.There are some studies that they are advocating grit is closely associated with selfdiscipline,self-regulation and goal orientation, and grit is the main factor for exlainingthat concpts(Duckworth & Quinn, 2009; Peterson & Seligman, 2004). In this study,university student success and their grit’s are analysed. Therefore, determining therelationship between success and grit is used for descriptive screening model. Thisstudy was conducted with 451 students in Education Faculty at Necmettin Erbakan University in 2015-2016 academic year spring semester. In order to data collecting “Grit-S scale”, developed by Duckworth and Quinn (2009) and adapted to Turkish by Sarıcam and others (2015), was used. Datum were analysed by SPSS 16 soft ware and frequency, mean, standard deviation and regresion test were used as statistical techniques. The achievement scores of students have found a significant correlation between the grit scores.