Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Grit

How Do Grit and Gratitude Relate to Flourishing?  The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation.- A "GRRR" goal orientation process-model: Workplace long-term relationships among Grit, Resilience and Recovery.- How does grit compare to other psychosocial factors in predicting university students' math performance and subjective wellbeing.- How Does Perseverance of Effort Influence the University Outcomes of Historically Underrepresented Students?.- Enhancing Grit: Possibility and Intervention Strategies.- Gritty Goal Pursuit and Perceived Chronic Stress: Exploring Implications for Academic Problems.- Grit Lit: An Effort to Cultivate Grit and Task Perseverance through a High-School Language Arts Curriculum.- Deconstructing Grit's Validity:   The Case for Revising Grit Measures and Theory.- Neurological correlates of grit: A critical review.- High Hope and Low Rumination are Antecedents of Grit.- Can the Components of Grit Predict the Long-Term Educational Outcomes?.-Exploring the Grit-Performance and Grit-Career Success Relationship: The Role of Psychological Ownership.- Developing Gritty Job Seekers: A Need-Supportive Approach to Grit Interventions.

Llewellyn E. van Zyl (PhD) is Assistant Professor of Work and Organisational Psychology with the University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands and holds an Extraordinary professorship with the North-West University in South Africa. He is a respected academic, published author and talent management consultant specializing in talent analytics, -assessment and -development. During the past decade, he has gained extensive experience in the development, implementation and evaluation of strategic talent development initiatives for multi-national corporations spanning from the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia to South Africa. He has a passion for developing strengths-based, fit-for-purpose leadership development solutions aimed at the optimization of leaders' capability.



Chantal Olckers (PhD) is Associate Professor in the Department of Human Resource Management at the University of Pretoria. She is a registered psychologist (Category: Industrial) with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She has completed a doctorate degree in the field of human resource management, specialising in psychological ownership. Chantal is a respected researcher, with contributions to several peer-reviewed journals, chapters in international peer-reviewed books, and has presented several research papers at both national and international conferences. Chantal has involved with the South African Journal of Human Resource Management as well as the South African Journal of Industrial Psychology as a Section Editor. She has extensive experience within the tertiary educational environment (as a lecturer and researcher) and within the private sector (as a consultant). Chantal has a passion for positive organisational behaviour and specifically psychological ownership.
Leoni van der Vaart (PhD) completed both her PhD and master's degrees in human resource management and industrial/organisational psychology. She is a