• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.54.4.687
Corpus ID: 42623330

The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.

@article{Mischel1988TheNO,
  title={The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.},
  author={W. Mischel and Y. Shoda and P. K. Peake},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={1988},
  volume={54 4},
  pages={
          687-96
        }
}

W. Mischel, Y. Shoda, P. K. Peake

Published 1988

Medicine

Journal of personality and social psychology

Delay of gratification, assessed in a series of experiments when the subjects were in preschool, was related to parental personality ratings obtained a decade later for 95 of these children in adolescence. Clear and consistent patterns of correlations between self-imposed delay time in preschool and later ratings were found for both sexes over this time span. Delay behavior predicted a set of cognitive and social competencies and stress tolerance consistent with experimental analyses of the… CONTINUE READING

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