A Household Study of Self-Regulation in Children

Abstract

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Relationship Between Parental Big Five And Children’s Ability To Delay Gratification

“…In the present study, the age of the child showed a positive association with waiting time in the marshmallow test. This is consistent with previous findings of positive associations between children's age and DoG showing an increase of children's ability to delay gratification over development (Drobetz et al 2012;Houck and Lecuyer-Maus 2004). Maternal and paternal years of education were also significantly associated with children's waiting time in the models including only maternal and paternal data, respectively.…”

“…To our knowledge, the relationship between maternal personality and children's DoG has only been addressed in one study so far: In a sample of six-year-old school children, Drobetz et al (2012) measured maternal personality with the Big Five Inventory-SOEP (BFI-S) and DoG with the delay of gratification paradigm by Mischel et al (1989). In this sample, no associations between maternal Big Five and the children's DoG were found.…”

“…With an average age of 72 months, the children were relatively old for the delay of gratification paradigm and a high percentage of delayers (78.3%) was observed. These differences may have contributed to the null effect regarding the relationship between maternal personality and children's DoG in the study of Drobetz et al (2012).…”

“…As gender differences in DoG might exist across different age levels (Silverman 2003), a t-test for independent samples was conducted to investigate whether waiting time differed between the sexes. As known factors associated with DoG, we included parental education (Bindman et al 2015;Razza and Raymond 2013) as a measure of socioeconomic status and children's age (Drobetz et al 2012;Houck and Lecuyer-Maus 2004) as control variables in our models. The variable years of education was defined as the sum of years a subject spent in school, university, and vocational training and was used as a continuous measure of socioeconomic status.…”

“…However, methodological differences between the studies may have contributed to these results. For example, DoG was recorded dichotomously (Delayer versus Non-Delayer) by Drobetz et al (2012). With an average age of 72 months, the children were relatively old for the delay of gratification paradigm and a high percentage of delayers (78.3%) was observed.…”