Abstract
Grit, as a positive psychological trait, could affect the stability of nursing workforce and nurses’ physical and mental health continuously. The Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) with fewer items than the original Grit Scale was widely used to measure individual trait-level grit. However, the psychological properties of Grit-S among Chinese nurses have not been verified. A self-designed sociodemographic questionnaire was used to investigate 709 Chinese nurses in the study, and Grit-S, Big Five Inventory-44, Brief Self-Control Scale, 10-item Connor-Davidson resilience scale, and Task Performance Scale were adopted to collect information of grit, personality, self-control, resilience, and work performance. The confirmatory factor analysis, Pearson correlation analysis, hierarchical regression analysis, and multi-group confirmatory factor analysis were conducted to verify the psychometric properties of the Grit-S. The results demonstrated that the Grit-S had sound validity and reliability among Chinese nurse samples and had good measurement invariance across nurses in general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. The results of this study provide confidence in using the grit measurement among Chinese nurse in the future.
Highlights
The attention to positive psychology has led to increased interest in its important concepts, and grit is one of them
The results demonstrated that the Grit Scale (Grit-S) had sound validity and reliability among Chinese nurse samples and had good measurement invariance across nurses in general hospitals and psychiatric hospitals
In the factor neuroticism of personality, they had a strong negative correlation. These results suggested that the Grit-S was highly correlated with concept-related structure and had acceptable convergent validity
Summary
The attention to positive psychology has led to increased interest in its important concepts, and grit is one of them. The relationship between grit and personal performance or success has been widely studied, covering a wide range of fields, such as education (Christopoulou et al, 2018; Wei et al, 2019), military (Maddi et al, 2012, 2017), management (Schimschal and Lomas, 2019), economy (Dugan et al, 2019), sports (Meyer et al, 2017; Cormier et al, 2019), and so on These strands of research have verified that grit could positively predict personal achievements. Grit could positively promote health management skills and health-related quality of life (Traino et al, 2019), improve individual wellbeing (Arya and Lal, 2018; Schimschal et al, 2021) and life satisfaction (Li et al, 2018a)
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