Grit and Resilience as Predictors of Creativity Among Chinese English as a Foreign Language Teachers

Abstract

Teachers have been viewed for many years as one of the most effective factors with an important role in academic and learning settings. Numerous studies have been carried out on teachers and their performances in the classroom. Feelings are one of the pillars of all humans which can have a crucial function in offering academia that can impact all domains of learning. Creativity is one of the subcategories of feelings that is worthy to people and the community. Nonetheless, as a significant mental attribute, it has not been attended to enough by experts in language teaching until now. Some factors that seem concerning creativity are grit and resilience, the grit has a basic function in the educational and teaching cycle because gritty educators are more inspired to handle difficulties in hard situations. Moreover, to beware of these difficulties as a response to unprecedented situations, a similar intellectual concept rises in positive psychology known as resilience, which explains the persistence and highlights individuals’ skills. Therefore, the present study delineates the relationship of these notions with language teachers’ creativity. To this end, through convenient sampling 264 male and female Chinese EFL teachers took part in the present study, and their creativity, grit, and resilience were scrutinized by filling out the related questionnaires. The results through correlation coefficients indicated that creativity was negatively but significantly related to grit, but it was positively and significantly related to resilience. The results of the multiple regression showed that both grit and resilience could significantly predict creativity although grit is a better predictor of creativity. Some educational implications of the research about the outcomes of the research under academic circumstances are suggested.

Unlocking Teacher Professional Performance: Exploring Teaching Creativity in Transmitting Digital Literacy, Grit, and Instructional Quality

“…Results in the literature indicate that grit has a significant relationship with teaching creativity [13,14,95]. Sun [96] also states that grit is essential for teaching creativity. Gritty educators are more inspired to handle difficult situations [97].…”

Pengaruh Grit Terhadap Kreativitas Melalui Emotional Intelligence dan Work Engagement Pada Pekerja di Industri Ekonomi Kreatif

“…Studi terdahulu yang dilakukan oleh Grohman et al (2017) menyatakan bahwa grit tidak memengaruhi creativity. Studi lain membuktikan hal sebaliknya dengan menunjukkan adanya pengaruh positif antara grit terhadap creativity (Widodo & Gunawan, 2021;Sun, 2022). Hasil penelitian ini akan memberikan kontribusi teoretis terhadap penerapan ilmu psikologi positif di seting industri dan organisasi.…”

“…Grit dapat didefinisikan dengan dua komponen yaitu semangat (passion) dan ketekunan (perseverance) dalam jangka panjang dimana hal ini mengarah kepada peningkatan kinerja individu (de Waal et al 2022). Kestabilan individu dalam melakukan hal-hal yang mereka minati dan tekun dalam berusaha, apabila dilakukan dalam jangka waktu yang panjang, dapat menimbulkan dedikasi, penguasaan ilmu, serta creativity (Widodo & Gunawan, 2021;Sun, 2022;Gonlepa, Dilawar & Amosun, 2023). Hal ini didukung oleh pernyataan bahwa individu yang memiliki grit mampu mengkombinasikan semangat (passion), perhatian (attention), dan komitmen untuk mencapai tujuan jangka panjang (Disabato, Goodman & Kashdan, 2019) Studi juga menemukan adanya hubungan yang positif antara grit dan work engagement (Schutt & Torrence, 2022).…”

“…Individu yang kreatif menunjukkan tingkat ketekunan yang tinggi pula. Ditinjau dari penelitian terdahulu, grit memiliki pengaruh terhadap creativity (Gonlepa et al 2023;Sun, 2022;Widodo & Gunawan, 2021). Berdasarkan pemaparan sebelumnya, dapat ditarik hipotesis sebagai berikut: H₁: Grit berpengaruh terhadap Creativity…”