Relationships between physical therapist school students’ grit and vocational identity scale scores

Abstract

[Purpose] To confirm the necessity of considering students’ Grit scores when determining their stages of vocational identity development. [Subjects and Methods] A questionnaire survey was conducted, involving 85 students of the Department of Physical Therapy of a health care college, to examine their scores from a vocational identity scale for health care students (vocational identity scale) and the Japanese-version Short Grit Scale (Grit-S), in addition to basic attributes. The relationship between scores from the 2 scales and their subscales was analyzed using Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. [Results] There was a significant positive correlation between the students’ scores from the Grit-S and vocational identity scale, including their subscales. [Conclusion] Grit scores may represent vocational identity.