The Development of “Traditonal Chinese version of the Grit Scale’’(GS-TC) and a Research on the Relationship of GS-TC and Creativity

• Main Authors: Lin, Ya-Fen, 林雅芬
• Other Authors: Chen, Hsueh-Chih
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/b5btfj

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 創造力發展碩士在職專班 === 107 === The concept of Grit was first proposed by American psychologists Angela Duckworth et al. in 2007 and is defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals. However, most researchers focused on junior high school students and adults instead of children in the past. This study is trying to develop a scale called Traditonal Chinese version of the Grit Scale(GS-TC) that is applicable to elementary school students. The GS-TC was translated from the English version of the Gtit Scale mentioned by Duckworth et al.(2007) and can be divided into three parts. First, starting a pilot study of the GS-TC with 225 Taiwanese 5-6 grade students then revised the questions according to the analysis of the results. It showed not only good discrimination but also stable two-factor structure. The total amount of questions were adjusted from 12 to 11. Second, reliability analysis of results from a formal test with 407 Taiwanese 5-6 grade students suggested that GS-TC demonstrated high internal consistency for each factor (Consistency of Interests, α = .70; Perseverance of Effort, α =.78). Moreover, criterion-related validity analysis results suggested that the relationships between the subscales and criterions and roughly in line with expectations. These results demonstrated the whole construct effectiveness of GS-TC. The goodness-of-fit indices and confirmatory factor analysis of results provided evidence for the composite reliability of the scale. Third, good test-retest reliabilities from .52 to .64 were supported by results from 53 Taiwanese high grade elementary school students after an interval of three weeks. These findings suggest that the GS-TC could aim to high grade elementary school students to measure with good reliability and validity. In addition, GS-TC has a lower posititvely correlated relationship with academic achievement and creativity of high grade elementary school students. Finally, potential theoretical and practical applications of the measure were discussed. In conclusion, GS-TC could effectively measure the grit of high grade elementary school students, and further discuss the reationship with academic achievement and creativity. For educational, social, and personality psychological domains, it was practical applied valuable.