TY - JOUR
T1 - Grit is associated with food security among US parents and adolescents
AU - Nikolaus, Cassandra J.
AU - Schierer, Megan
AU - Ellison, Brenna
AU - Eicher-Miller, Heather A.
AU - Gundersen, Craig
AU - Nickols-Richardson, Sharon M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Objectives: We investigated whether the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) predicted odds of food insecurity (FI) among adults and their children. Methods: A cross-sectional panel of parent-child dyads completed an online questionnaire. Eligible dyads included parents with household income below the 2015 median ($52,250 USD/year) and their self-selected household child between the ages of 13 to 17 years. An online questionnaire assessed: (1) FI using the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module and the Food Security Survey Module for Youth; (2) perseverance and determination using the validated 8-item Grit-S; and (3) sociodemographic FI predictors. Logit regression models estimated the relationship between odds of FI and predictors among parents and children, separately. Results: Among 252 parents, 61.1% reported household FI. Parents’ Grit-S score (N = 179) was associated with a significantly lower odds of household FI (OR= 0.4; 95%CI= 0.2, 0.8; p < .01) while adjusting for established predictors. Mean (±SD) Grit-S was 3.1 (±0.7). Children’s Grit-S score (N = 178) was associated with a significantly lower odds of child FI (OR= 0.6; 95%CI= 0.4, 0.9; p < .05) while adjusting for established predictors. Conclusions: Perseverance and determination, also known as “grit,” may be one further explanation for why some poor households are food secure.
AB - Objectives: We investigated whether the Short Grit Scale (Grit-S) predicted odds of food insecurity (FI) among adults and their children. Methods: A cross-sectional panel of parent-child dyads completed an online questionnaire. Eligible dyads included parents with household income below the 2015 median ($52,250 USD/year) and their self-selected household child between the ages of 13 to 17 years. An online questionnaire assessed: (1) FI using the 18-item Household Food Security Survey Module and the Food Security Survey Module for Youth; (2) perseverance and determination using the validated 8-item Grit-S; and (3) sociodemographic FI predictors. Logit regression models estimated the relationship between odds of FI and predictors among parents and children, separately. Results: Among 252 parents, 61.1% reported household FI. Parents’ Grit-S score (N = 179) was associated with a significantly lower odds of household FI (OR= 0.4; 95%CI= 0.2, 0.8; p < .01) while adjusting for established predictors. Mean (±SD) Grit-S was 3.1 (±0.7). Children’s Grit-S score (N = 178) was associated with a significantly lower odds of child FI (OR= 0.6; 95%CI= 0.4, 0.9; p < .05) while adjusting for established predictors. Conclusions: Perseverance and determination, also known as “grit,” may be one further explanation for why some poor households are food secure.
KW - Food
KW - Food security
KW - Grit
KW - Hunger
KW - Perseverance
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U2 - 10.5993/AJHB.43.1.17
DO - 10.5993/AJHB.43.1.17
M3 - Article
C2 - 30522578
AN - SCOPUS:85058600540
SN - 1087-3244
VL - 43
SP - 207
EP - 218
JO - American Journal of Health Behavior
JF - American Journal of Health Behavior
IS - 1
ER -