Relationship Between Students’ Perseverance and Self-Compassion Among Adolescents; Moderating Role of Motivation

Abstract

The primary objective of this study was to explore relationship between students’ perseverance and self-compassion among adolescents; moderating role of motivation. Bojectives of the present research were there will be positive correlation between perseverance and self-compassion among adolescents, there will be a difference between girls and boys on motivation, perseverance, and self-compassion, and motivation will play moderating role between perseverance and self-compassion. The sample for this research was 300 secondary school students enrolled in both public and private schools. The age range of participants was 13-18 years. The participants were divided into the two gender groups i.e. male n=145, 48.3% and female n=155, 51.7% were part of the study. Three scales Students’ motivation scale (Bin Dayel et al.2024), 12 Item Grit Scale (For Measuring Perseverance) (Duckworth (2007), and Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form (SCS-SF) (Raes, Pommier, Neff and Van, 2011) were used to measure the responses. Result were showed the relationship between study variables. The results indicated that both age demographics among adolescents were significantly and positively correlated with the Students’ Motivation Scale, while they showed a significant positive correlation with perseverance. Results illustrated that girls are more motivated as compared to boys. Results also indicated that perseverance is higher among boys as compared to girls and Self-Compassion is significantly higher among girls. Results illustrate that those having low socio-economic status are more motivated as compared to middle and high socio-economic status. Results also illustrated that Perseverance is higher among children with high economic status. There is a non-significant interaction between perseverance and Motivation, this indicated that relationship between perseverance and self-compassion is non-conditional upon Motivation.