Grit in pharmacy faculty: A pilot analysis focused on productivity measures

Area of Science:

• Pharmacy Education
• Psychology in Academia

Background:

• Grit, defined as perseverance and passion for long-term goals, is linked to success.
• Previous studies show mixed results on grit predicting academic performance in pharmacy students.
• Grit's implications for pharmacy faculty remain unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

• To determine Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) scores among pharmacy faculty at two universities.
• To investigate the correlation between pharmacy faculty Grit-S scores and their productivity in teaching, scholarship, and service.

Main Methods:

• A 36-item electronic survey collected demographics and self-reported Grit-S scores from pharmacy faculty.
• Faculty productivity was quantitatively measured across teaching, scholarship, and service.
• Non-parametric analyses tested correlations between Grit-S scores and productivity metrics.

Main Results:

• Pharmacy faculty reported high average Grit-S scores (3.68).
• No significant correlation was found between Grit-S scores and teaching or service productivity.
• A moderately positive correlation existed between higher Grit-S scores and the number of peer-reviewed publications in 2017.

Conclusions:

• Pharmacy faculty generally possess high levels of grit.
• Grit was not significantly correlated with most measures of faculty productivity (teaching, service).
• A positive association was observed between grit and scholarly output (publications).