Investigating Grit Variables and Their Relations with Practice and Skill Groups in Developing Sport Experts

Autor/inn/en	Tedesqui, Rafael A. B.; Young, Bradley W.
Titel	Investigating Grit Variables and Their Relations with Practice and Skill Groups in Developing Sport Experts
Quelle	In: High Ability Studies, 28 (2017) 2, S.167-180 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Tedesqui, Rafael A. B.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-8139
DOI	10.1080/13598139.2017.1340262
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Athletes; Factor Analysis; Persistence; Athletics; Team Sports; Measures (Individuals); Likert Scales; Structural Equation Models; Expertise; Predictive Validity; Surveys; Regression (Statistics); Multivariate Analysis; Canada (Ottawa) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Athlet; Faktorenanalyse; Ausdauer; Leichtathletik; Mannschaftssport; Messdaten; Likert-Skala; Expert appraisal; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Multivariate Analyse
Abstract	Grit, the tendency to work hard toward long-term goals, maintaining effort and interest over years despite failure and adversity, has predicted several achievement outcomes. However, minimal work has examined grit within a sport expertise development framework, and specifically its association with deliberate practice (DP) in sport. Participants, 250 athletes (109 female; M[subscript age] = 23.40, SD = 10.14), completed the 12-item Grit Scale, practice measures, and reported their skill level (local to international). Factor analyses confirmed a 10-item two-factor model for use in our sport sample: consistency of interests (CI; 6 items; a = 0.81) and perseverance of effort (PE; 4 items; a = 0.75). A full latent variable model controlling for age showed PE significantly predicted weekly amounts of DP and engagement in mandatory and optional practice contexts; CI was inversely associated with threats to athletes' sport commitment. Among senior athletes, both Expert and Advanced skill groups had higher PE levels than a Basic/Intermediate group, ps < 0.05. The tendency to work hard toward long-term goals seemingly enables athletes to persist with practice activities that are pivotal to expert sport development. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01