Department of Psychology, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America.
Center for Technology and Behavioral Health, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, NH, United States of America.
PLoS One. 2023 Jul 7;18(7):e0288270. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0288270. eCollection 2023.
Depressive symptoms have been shown to be negatively related to academic achievement, as measured by grade point average (GPA). Grit, or the passion for and the ability to persevere toward a goal despite adversity, has been linked to GPA. Thus, grit may potentially buffer against the negative effects of depressive symptoms in relation to academic achievement. However, social desirability may might impact the validity of grit when assessed by self-report measures, so how these constructs are all related is unknown. The current study explored the relationship between depressive symptoms, grit, social desirability, and GPA among University students (N = 520) in the United States using a cross-sectional design. We conducted a moderated-moderation model to examine how social desirability moderated the relationship between depressive symptoms, grit, and GPA. Findings replicated prior work and indicated negative relationships between depressive symptoms and social desirability with GPA and a positive relationship, albeit non-significant, between grit and GPA. However, results suggest that grit did not moderate the relationship between depressive symptoms and GPA when including social desirability in the model. Future research should investigate this relationship in a longitudinal setting to further examine how grit and depressive symptoms influence one another in academic domains.
抑郁症状与学业成绩呈负相关，可通过平均绩点（GPA）来衡量。毅力，即对目标的热情和坚持克服逆境的能力，与 GPA 有关。因此，毅力可能有助于减轻抑郁症状对学业成绩的负面影响。然而，社会期望可能会影响自我报告测量时的毅力的有效性，因此这些结构之间的关系尚不清楚。本研究采用横断面设计，探讨了美国大学生（N=520）中抑郁症状、毅力、社会期望与 GPA 之间的关系。我们进行了一个调节-调节模型，以检验社会期望如何调节抑郁症状、毅力和 GPA 之间的关系。研究结果复制了先前的研究结果，表明抑郁症状与 GPA 呈负相关，与社会期望呈负相关，而毅力与 GPA 呈正相关，但不显著。然而，结果表明，当模型中包含社会期望时，毅力并不能调节抑郁症状和 GPA 之间的关系。未来的研究应该在纵向环境中调查这种关系，以进一步研究毅力和抑郁症状如何在学术领域相互影响。
