We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to explore how high school peers’ grit, a personality trait characterized by perseverance and passion, influences long-term outcomes approximately 15 years after high school. Exploiting random variation within schools across...

Cover -- Transition to Success: Training Students to Lead Peer Groups in Higher Education -- Contents -- Preface -- The Scope of This Book -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1: Students as Peer Leaders -- CHAPTER 2: The Group Dynamic Process -- CHAPTER 3: The Peer Leadership Process -- CHAPTER 4:...

The current study develops and tests a model of applicant withdrawal. Drawing on tenets from social identity theory and the theory of planned behavior, the current study proposes that applicants who highly identify with an organization will experience higher pursuit intentions and subsequently...