Defined as “perseverance and passion for long-term goals” ( Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007 ). According to the scholars of resilience and grit, “grit is not just having resilience in the face of failure, but also having deep commitments that you remain loyal to over many years” ( Perkins-Gough, 2013 ).
Published in Chapter:
How Children Fail: Exploring Parent and Family Factors That Foster Grit
Emily Hotez (UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, USA)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2940-9.ch003
Abstract
In recent years, there has been widespread interest across both the research and public sectors in understanding how to promote children's lifelong success in a range of domains. While a focus on promoting success in children remains salient, equally salient in the research is how children fail—specifically, how children prevail in the face of failure, adversity, and other challenges over time. The chapter explores parenting and family factors that predict grit. This chapter investigates a range of parenting and family factors, including demographic characteristics, parenting behaviors and styles, and family cultural and environmental factors. Based on this research, the chapter provides overarching recommendations to researchers seeking to understand grit in a family context.