Predicting adolescent cognitive and self-regulatory competencies from preschool delay of gratification: Identifying diagnostic conditions.
Developmental PsychologyPublished 1 November 1990
Yuichi Shoda, Walter Mischel, Philip K. Peake
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Abstract
Variations of the self-imposed delay-of-gratification situation in preschool were compared to determine when individual differences in this situation may predict aspects of cognitive and self-regulatory competence and coping in adolescence.
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