Role of grit in relation to academic resilience, perceived academic stress, and academic burnout among accountancy students
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2022
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UMT Lahore
Abstract
The present study is intended to explore the role of grit in relation to academic resilience
perceived academic stress and academic burnout among accountancy students. Moreover, the study
examining the level of grit in terms of consistency of interest and perseverance of effort by focusing
directly and indirectly on the levels of academic resilience, perceived academic stress and academic
burnout. The data was collected through questionnaire survey forms from 400 among these 202
participant’s male students and 198 were female students. The participants were studying professional
qualification in different schools of accountancy SKANS (CA), SKANS (ACCA), RISE, CFE, and
HISAB School of accountancy respectively in Lahore aged between 19-26 years, accumulated by a
non-probability purposive sampling technique specifically for accounting students. Four scales were
used to collect data from participants (i) 12-Item-Grit Scale Duckworth et al., (2007), (ii) The
perception of academic stress scale (Bedewy & Gabriel, 2015). (iii)Academic Resilience Scale (ARS
30) (Simon Cassidy,2015) (iv) Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (Campos et al., 2013) along with
demographics. The correlation research design was used and it revealed that grit was found to have a
positive correlation with academic resilience (+0.50), weak correlation with Perceived academic
Stress (+0.22), and weak negative correlation with academic burnout. Gender and family types were
found relevant in studying the variables such that men had advantage over women with respect to grit
and academic resilience, and participants from nuclear family were observed to be grittier and
academically resilient. The simple linear regression demonstrated that grit was a highly negative
significant predictor of academic burnout. Education was a positive significant predictor of perceived
academic stress. The grit was also a highly negative significant predictor of perceived academic stress
ultimately, partial mediation was also observed of the role of academic resilience between grit and
academic burnout. The present research is helpful of understanding these issues will be of immense
value in developing effective counselling and resilience enhancement interventions to facilitate
personal development of accountancy students in terms of developing grit and academic resilience by
decreasing academic burnout and academic stress.