영재와 평재 고등학생들의 성공에 대한 인식, Grit, 열망 및 성취목적 비교

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare gifted and non-gifted high school students on their perceptions of success, grit, aspirations, and achievement goal orientation. Of the 550 high school students surveyed from 4 high schools (i.e., two schools for gifted, two school for non-gifted) in three metropolitan cities, Korea, 496 (i.e., 153 gifted and 343 non-gifted) completed and returned the questionnaire yielding a total response rate of 90.18%. Measures of students` grit (i.e., consistency of interest, and perseverance of effort), aspirations (i.e., intrinsic aspirations - physical fitness, self-growth, affiliation, community contribution, and extrinsic aspirations - financial success, image, fame), achievement goal orientation (i.e., mastery, performance approach and performance avoidance), and perceptions of (i.e., Success in life is pretty much determined by forces outside our control.) were administered. It was found that the majority of gifted students and non-gifted students perceived that success is outside our control., and chose `hard-working` as the most influential factor on their success. 60.4% of non-gifted students chose `wealthy family background` as the other most influential factor, whereas only 48.2% of gifted did. Gifted students had higher `consistency of interest` and `mastery goals` than non-gifted students. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that grit (i.e., perseverance of effort) was the crucial contributors for enhancing both gifted and non-gifted students` mastery goals and performance approach goals. Results are discussed in relation to theoretical implications and school settings.