General psychology

Grit

Grit is a personality construct developed by Angela Duckworth describing passion and perseverance for long-term goals — the capacity to sustain effort over years toward a single ambition.

Empirical debate: Grit correlates strongly (r ≈ 0.7) with Big Five Conscientiousness and subsequent meta-analyses suggest it adds modest incremental validity over Conscientiousness alone. Its popular appeal outran its empirical novelty.