Development of the Employee Grit (E-Grit) Measurement: Dimensionality, Convergent Validity, and Reliability

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10.2991/assehr.k.201125.023How to use a DOI?

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grit, measurement, psychometrics

Abstract

Grit is a psychological concept that can explain the relationship between individual characteristics—such as intelligence and personality—and one’s work performance. General life-domain grit measurements have been developed over the years. Specific life-domain grit measurements are essential because of individual differences in resource allocation among many aspects of life. The current study aimed to develop a context-specific measurement of work-employee grit—the Employee Grit (E-Grit) measurement—based on the Triarchic Model of Grit (TMG). Four hundred thirty-three full-time and part-time employees participated in this study to evaluate the psychometric properties of the new measurement, which initially consisted of 32 items. Quantitative item analysis produced 15 items to test for dimensionality using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. The results of the initial exploratory factor analysis suggested that the three-factor solution was the best fit for the construct. The confirmatory factor analysis results showed fit for both badness-of-fit criteria (χ2 /df, RMSEA, SRMR) and goodness-of-fit criteria (CFI and TLI). The three-correlated-factor model also provided a better fit compared to the one-factor or three-uncorrelated-factor models. The E-Grit measurement provided convergent validity by zero-order correlation and structural equation modeling that included the conscientiousness subscale of the Big Five Inventory. The overall coefficient of reliability of the E-Grit and the coefficients of each of its dimensions were categorized as acceptable according to the criteria. Thus, the employee grit measurement is a good new instrument that can be used to measure grit in the work context.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Iqbal Maesa Febriawan
AU  - Dewi Maulina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/27
TI  - Development of the Employee Grit (E-Grit) Measurement: Dimensionality, Convergent Validity, and Reliability
BT  - Joint proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2019) and the 4th Universitas Indonesia Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 272
EP  - 289
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201125.023
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201125.023
ID  - Febriawan2020
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