APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Grit Is Not Correlated with Time Spent Working on Anagram Problems

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Cognitive

Session: Poster Session X

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Abstract

Grit involves persistence in solving problems. In this study, grit and time to solve anagrams were not correlated in STEM students at an HSI (N = 397, Mage = 22.42). Teenage students had higher grit scores than other age groups, but only at the start of a semester.

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