Evidence for a Behaviourally Measurable Perseverance Trait in Humans

The aim was to create and study a possible behavioural measure for trait(s) in humans that reflect the ability motivation continue an unpleasant behaviour, i.e., perseverance or persistence (BP). We utilised six different tasks with 54 subjects BP trait(s): cold pressor task, hand grip endurance impossible anagram verbal reasoning thread needle boring video task. task performances formed two factors. Together, two-factor solution is responsible common variance constituting 37.3% of total performance times. Excluding any given better explained by other (i.e., “trait”, η2 range = 0.131–0.253) than rank order variable (“depletion”, getting tired from previous tasks, 0–0.096).