Abstract
The study examines the importance of socio-demographic variables like age, gender, family environment, and relationship with parents and friends in determining non-cognitive traits such as flourishing and grit, during the tenure of doctoral research. The cross-sectional correlational study comprises 400 Ph.D. scholars from a Central University in India, who were given a personal data sheet, the Flourishing Scale and the Grit Scale, for assessment. The results of the F-test showed that flourishing was significantly related to age, family environment and relationship with friends, and grit was significantly related to family environment and relationship with friends. Analysis using Pearson correlation found a weak correlation between flourishing and the three subscales of grit, namely ambition, consistency of interest, and perseverance of effort. Findings suggest that the socio-demographic variables are important contributors in the long-term goal-oriented behaviors and that flourishing and grit are two related but not correlated variables that influence completion and attrition of the doctoral research.
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The authors wish to acknowledge the Heads of the departments for granting permission to meet the students for their participation in the study. The authors thank all the scholars of Pondicherry University for participating in the study voluntarily and providing data.
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Deb, S. et al. (2023). Doctoral Research by Youth: Analyzing the Role of Socio-Demographic Variables on Flourishing and Grit. In: Deb, S., Deb, S. (eds) Handbook of Youth Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4969-4_30
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