Grit and belonging are consistently important factors in emerging adult academic outcomes (Morrow & Ackermann, 2012). This study examines the role of grit (i.e., goal perseverance, consistency of interest, and adaptability), belonging (i.e., sense of fitting in and feeling valued), and perceived institutional compassion (i.e., care/support and resources for students in pandemic-related responses) in emerging adults’ academic goal pursuits amid COVID-19 challenges. Emerging adult participants (age 18–24; N = 258) representing a diverse sample of traditional, full-time, undergraduate students across the United States (60% women; 47.31% White, 18.46% Black/African American, 17.31% Asian, 10.77% Hispanic/Latino/a/x), completed an online survey assessing pandemic-related stress, grit, belonging, goal pursuits, and the newly developed Institutional Compassion Scale (Schmahl, 2021). Unexpectedly, pandemic-related stress was unrelated to student assessments of their progress toward academic short- and long-term goals. But grit and belonging were associated with pandemic-related stress: high stress is associated with a weaker sense of belonging and with lower grit. Institutional compassion was associated with all three major study variables: grit, sense of belonging, and stress. Higher institutional compassion was associated with a greater sense of belonging and less pandemic-related stress. The importance of grit, belonging, and particularly institutional compassion are discussed as they pertain to emerging adults’ perceptions of themselves as progressing toward their goals during stressful periods such as the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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探索新兴成年专上学生的毅力、归属感、机构同情心、流行病压力和目标进展之间的关系


毅力和归属感始终是成人学业成绩的重要因素（Morrow & Ackermann，2012）。本研究考察了毅力（即目标毅力、兴趣的一致性和适应性）、归属感（即融入感和被重视的感觉）和感知到的机构同情心（即在大流行病中对学生的关心/支持和资源）的作用。 - 相关反应）在新兴成年人在 COVID-19 挑战中追求学术目标的过程中。新兴成人参与者（18-24 岁； N = 258）代表了美国各地传统全日制本科生的不同样本（60% 为女性；47.31% 为白人，18.46% 为黑人/非裔美国人，17.31% 为亚裔， 10.77% 西班牙裔/拉丁裔/a/x）完成了一项在线调查，评估与流行病相关的压力、毅力、归属感、目标追求和新开发的机构同情心量表（Schmahl，2021）。出乎意料的是，与大流行相关的压力与学生对其短期和长期学术目标进展的评估无关。但毅力和归属感与大流行相关的压力有关：高压力与归属感较弱和毅力较低有关。机构同情心与所有三个主要研究变量相关：毅力、归属感和压力。更高的机构同情心与更强的归属感和更少的流行病相关压力相关。讨论了勇气、归属感，尤其是机构同情心的重要性，因为它们与新兴成年人在压力时期（例如 COVID-19 大流行爆发）对自己在实现目标方面取得进展的看法有关。