Grit (effortful persistence) can be measured with a short scale, shows little variation across socio-demographic subgroups, and is associated with career success and career engagement

• Clemens M. Lechner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: clemens.lechner@gesis.org

  Affiliation Department of Survey Design and Methodology, GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3053-8701

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• Daniel Danner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Applied Labour Studies, Mannheim, Germany

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• Beatrice Rammstedt

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Survey Design and Methodology, GESIS–Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

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