Emotional Stability and Grit Among Individuals From Different Professions: Does Religiosity Mediate Their Relationship?

Grit, defined as patience and perseverance for long-term goals, has been explored with various traits in the past decade. The present cross-sectional study explored the level of grit in the sample along with its relationship with religiosity and emotional stability. The purposive sample included 400 adults divided into five distinct groups: medical doctors, religious scholars, civil service officers, army officers, and PhD doctors from Quetta city, Pakistan (n = 80 for each group; mean age = 32.50 years, SD = 10.51). A significant and strong correlation was found between emotional stability and grit, whereas with religiosity, grit exhibited a significant but relatively weak correlation. A one-way ANOVA was performed to analyze mean differences between sample groups, which differed significantly. Tukey’s honestly significant difference (HSD) test indicated that among the above-mentioned groups, PhD doctors were grittiest. Though both emotional stability and religiosity predicted grit among professionals significantly, religiosity did not mediate the relationship between emotional stability and grit. Further implications of the findings are discussed.