Study Engagement in Relation to Psychological Fitness, Grit and Academic Motivation Among Emerging Adults

Abstract

Psychological fitness is a new and a developing concept in psychology. It can be considered as a core construct for well-being and thriving. Term Psychological fitness is designed in such a way that a person who is assertive, resilient, emotionally regulated, socially competent and having good coping strategy and self-efficacy will have a greater access to mental health.The present study was designed to analyze how psychological fitness is related to educational sector, specifically in an emerging adults population.Participants of the study are 376 randomly selected emerging adults aged 18-29 years from various districts in Kerala.To understand the influence of psychological fitness on various educational factors, instruments like grit scale, study engagement and academic motivation inventory were also used. Correlation, 3 way ANOVA and t test was used to analyze the data, the result of the study shows that there is a significant relationship between student’s study engagement, psychological fitness, grit, academic motivation and it was found that psychological fitness, academic motivation and grit is not interacting each other but there exist a significant main effect, that they are independently influencing the study engagement and its dimensions like vigor, dedication and absorption.