scholarly journals Your wish is my command! The influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children’s delay of gratification

PeerJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e774 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Kumst ◽  
D Scarf
Keyword(s):  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Symbolic Modelling

scholarly journals Your wish is my command! Influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children’s delay of gratification

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Scarf ◽  
Sahlia Kumst
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Symbolic Model ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Symbolic Modelling ◽  
And Control

Children’s ability to delay gratification is correlated with a range of positive outcomes in adulthood, showing the potential impact of helping young children increase their competence in this area. This study investigated the influence of symbolic models on 3-year-old children’s self-control. Eighty-three children were randomly assigned to one of three modelling conditions: personal story-telling, impersonal story-telling, and control. Children were tested on the delay-of-gratification maintenance paradigm both before and after being exposed to a symbolic model or control condition. Repeated measures ANOVA revealed no significant differences between the two story-telling groups and the control group, indicating that the symbolic models did not influence children’s ability to delay gratification. A serendipitous finding showed a positive relationship between children’s ability to wait and their production and accurate use of temporal terms, which was more pronounced in girls than boys. This finding may be an indication that a higher temporal vocabulary is linked to a continuous representation of the self in time, facilitating children’s representation of the future-self receiving a larger reward than what the present-self could receive.

scholarly journals Your wish is my command! Influence of symbolic modelling on preschool children’s delay of gratification

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damian Scarf ◽  
Sahlia Kumst
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Delay Of Gratification ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Symbolic Model ◽  
Personal Story ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Symbolic Modelling ◽  
And Control

Children’s ability to delay gratification is correlated with a range of positive outcomes in adulthood, showing the potential impact of helping young children increase their competence in this area. This study investigated the influence of symbolic models on 3-year-old children’s self-control. Eighty-three children were randomly assigned to one of three modelling conditions: personal story-telling, impersonal story-telling, and control. Children were tested on the delay-of-gratification maintenance paradigm both before and after being exposed to a symbolic model or control condition. Repeated measures ANOVA revealed no significant differences between the two story-telling groups and the control group, indicating that the symbolic models did not influence children’s ability to delay gratification. A serendipitous finding showed a positive relationship between children’s ability to wait and their production and accurate use of temporal terms, which was more pronounced in girls than boys. This finding may be an indication that a higher temporal vocabulary is linked to a continuous representation of the self in time, facilitating children’s representation of the future-self receiving a larger reward than what the present-self could receive.

Emotion and delay of gratification

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Luerssen ◽  
Anett Gyurak ◽  
Ozlem Ayduk ◽  
Silvia Bunge
Keyword(s):  
Delay Of Gratification

Food Choice and Delay of Gratification

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Van Exan ◽  
Jennifer S. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Food Choice ◽  
Delay Of Gratification
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