Empathy and Executive Function as Mediators Between Grit and School adaptation in Middle School Students with High Intelligence

Key Points

• To explore the structural relationships between grit, empathy, executive function, and school adaptation in students with high intelligence.
• Analyzed data from the Panel Study on Korean Children (PSKC) 13th and 15th waves.
• Selected 138 students with an IQ of 130 or higher from a population of 1,294.
• Investigated the mediating effects of empathy and executive function in the relationship between grit and school adaptation.
• Grit showed a significant positive correlation with empathy and executive function.
• Empathy was identified as a significant mediator between grit and school adaptation.
• The direct path from grit to school adaptation was not significant.

Abstract