Relationship between grit and self-esteem in middle school students: the mediating role of self-identity

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Objective To explore the relationship among grit, self-identity and self-esteem and the mediating role of self-identity between grit and self-esteemin middle school students, so as to provide evidence for the study of grit of middle school students.

Methods In March 2019, 1 476 middle school students were selected from two ordinary middle schools in a county of Fujian Province. 12-Ttem Grit-scale, Selt-identity Scale and Selt-esteem Scale were used to conduct the questionnaire survey.

Results Relevant analysis showed that perseverance of efforts, consistency of interests were positively correlated with self-identity ( r = 0.40, 0.31, P<0.01) and self-esteem ( r = 0.46, 0.18, P<0.01). Self-identity and self-esteem were positively correlated ( r = 0.67, P<0.01) .The results of the mediation test showed that self-identity partially mediates the relationship between perseverance of efforts and self-esteem, mediation effect accounted for 50.38% of the total effect.Self-identity fullymediatesthe relationshipbetween consistency of interests and self-esteem.

Conclusion The self-identity of middle school students partially mediates the relationship between perseverance of efforts and self-esteem, and completely mediates the relationship between consistency of interests and self-esteem.

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【摘要】目的 探讨中学生坚毅、自我同一性与自尊的关系, 为中学生坚毅的研究提供依据。 方法 采用分层整群 抽样法于 2019 年 3 月选取福建某市 2 所普通中学 1 476 名中学生作为研究对象, 采用坚毅量表 (Grit–12)、自我同一性量 表 (SIS)、自尊量表 (SES)进行问卷调査。 结果 相关分析表明, 中学生坚毅的坚持努力、兴趣一致与自我同一性和自尊均 呈正相关 (r值分别为 0.40, 0.31;0.46, 0.18, P值均<0.01), 自我同一性与自尊呈正相关 ( r = 0.67, P<0.01)。 中介作用检验 结果表明, 自我同一性在坚毅的坚持努力与自尊之间起部分中介作用, 中介效应占总效应的50.38% ；自我同一性在坚毅的 兴趣一致与自尊之间起完全中介作用。 结论 中学生自我同一性在坚毅的坚持努力对自尊的关系中具有部分中介效应, 在坚毅的兴趣一致对自尊的关系中具有完全中介效应。