PSY E243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Agreeableness, Raymond Cattell, Psychopathology
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Delay of gratification: ability to delay short-term pleasures in the interest of. Develops early and predicts a wide range of positive life outcomes. Necessary for staying in school, saving money, etc. Leave child alone with small, but tempting, treat. Children adopt a range of clever strategies to delay. Funder, block, & block (1983) ran 116 4-year-olds through the delay of gratification task and administered q-sort at age 3, 4, 7, and 11. In general, correlations between traits and delay score stable over time. For both boys and girls, being planful, reflective, reasonable, and emotionally stable delay longer. Girls who can delay gratification are also intelligent, competent, attentive, resourceful. Boys who can delay gratification are also shy, quiet, compliant, and anxious. More restless and fidgety, emotionally unstable, disobedient, nervous, domineering, immature, aggressive, teasing, and susceptible to stress. i. e. , children may be predisposed to drug abuse.
