Longitudinal Invariance Analysis of the Short Grit Scale in Chinese Young Adults

Frontiers in Psychology

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Jie Luo¹  Meng-Cheng Wang²  Ying Ge⁵  Wei Chen¹  Shuang Xu¹ 

[1] School of Psychology, Guizhou Normal University;Department of Psychology, Guangzhou University;The Key Laboratory for Juveniles Mental Health and Educational Neuroscience in Guangdong Province, Guangzhou University;The Center for Psychometrics and Latent Variable Modeling, Guangzhou University;Key Laboratory of Emotion and Mental Health in Chongqing, Chongqing Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences

关键词: longitudinal measurement invariance;    personality trait;    grit;    Grit-S;    Chinese young adults;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00466

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The current study examined the longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) of the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) in a survey sample of Chinese young adults ( N = 233, 48.9% male, mean age = 19.36 years, SD = 0.90 years) who completed the Grit-S twice over a 3-month interval. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to examine the LMI of the Grit-S across time. Results showed that the Grit-S has strict longitudinal invariance (i.e., equality of factor patterns, factor loadings, item intercepts, and item uniqueness for all items) over time. Additionally, the internal consistency indices of the Grit-S were acceptable across time, the stability coefficients over time were moderate, and latent factor means did not differ significantly across time. In sum, these findings suggest that the Grit-S has satisfactory longitudinal properties when used in Chinese young adults.

【 授权许可】

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