TY - JOUR
T1 - Happiness takes effort
T2 - Exploring the relationship among academic grit, executive functions and well-being
AU - Liao, Yu Hsiu
AU - Chen, Hsueh Chih
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was financially supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan , and the “Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences” and “Chinese Language and Technology Center” of National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) from The Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help people attain their goals, while grit describes persistent efforts to attain success. However, little research has hitherto examined the relationships among grit, executive functions, and well-being. This empirical study helps fill that gap. Three self-report psychological instruments were administered to 214 university students, and simple direct regression applied to the collected data to analyze the effects of the three variables. The results indicated that grit had positive relationships with both executive functions and well-being. The implications of these findings, and the limitations of the study's methods, are also discussed.
AB - Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help people attain their goals, while grit describes persistent efforts to attain success. However, little research has hitherto examined the relationships among grit, executive functions, and well-being. This empirical study helps fill that gap. Three self-report psychological instruments were administered to 214 university students, and simple direct regression applied to the collected data to analyze the effects of the three variables. The results indicated that grit had positive relationships with both executive functions and well-being. The implications of these findings, and the limitations of the study's methods, are also discussed.
KW - Academic grit
KW - Executive functions
KW - University students
KW - Well-being
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U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111863
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111863
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85136316110
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 199
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
M1 - 111863
ER -