Antecedents and Consequences of Grit Among Working Adults: A Transpersonal Psychology Perspective

Abstract

Positive psychology has paved the way for newer and more informed ideas of living a meaningful, integrated and well-rounded quality of living. The current era of the pandemic has also moulded the ways in which individuals perceive their quality of life and how they want to integrate a holistic approach towards their well-being. The workplace settings have seen tremendous changes in terms of how employers, employees and the organisations at large function and operate. The pre-pandemic concept of success has shifted its focus from hard work to developing grit among employees to increase the overall efficiency of the organisations. Grit has revolutionised the conventional standards of success, meaning in life and has impacted personal as well as occupational welfare. This integration of positive psychology and transpersonal psychology has catalysed the purpose for the current study. To help organisations and individuals thrive in their professional endeavours at the workplace and to provide them with relevant psychological tools to enhance their occupational growth, the present study has been conducted empirically to investigate the antecedents and consequences of grit among 209 working professionals in India. The results of this study indicate that the transpersonal capital of metacognition, flow, optimism and empathy have a significant role to play in developing grit among the participants. The findings have implications for enhancing job satisfaction and job performance of participants. The current research also provides a framework to organisations towards designing interventions for improving efficiency at the workplace.

Structure and factorial invariance of the Grit-Original scale and convergent validity of the network with job satisfaction and happiness

“…Park and Cho (2019), also reported the relationship between these two variables in a sample of 239 Korean nurses. Likewise, other more recent research reported the significant effect of Grit on job satisfaction in 209 Indian professionals (Agrawal et al, 2022).…”

The Impact of Grit on Nurses’ Job Performance: Evaluating Chained Mediation through Perceived Social Support and Self-Esteem

“…Tere are no missing data due to the settings of the web-based survey. First, to examine the efect of common method deviation that may arise from the measurement method regarding self-reported scales and can lead to inaccurate results [82,83], Harman's single-factor tests were conducted on all items of the four scales [84]. Te participants' sociodemographic characteristics and major variables were analyzed as descriptive statistics (i.e., mean and standard deviation (SD)).…”

Integration of Sufism and Transpersonal Psychology

“…In Sufism, this transformation process is based on self-purification and the search for divine closeness. In contrast, in Transpersonal Psychology, attention focuses on expanding consciousness and transpersonal realization (Agrawal, 2022). However, these two approaches complement and inform each other at their core, demonstrating that proper growth and self-understanding come through exploring inner depths connected to universal qualities (Sotillos, 2022).…”