Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.

Delay of gratification-a form of self-control-is the ability to forsake immediately available rewards in order to obtain larger-valued outcomes in future, which develops throughout the pre-school years. The majority of previous research in this area has been conducted with Western populations, there...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Ning Ding, Anna Frohnwieser, Rachael Miller, Nicola S Clayton
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/f265472d587848f7a771126dc05c1ef2
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:f265472d587848f7a771126dc05c1ef2
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:f265472d587848f7a771126dc05c1ef22021-12-02T20:14:49ZWaiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0256966https://doaj.org/article/f265472d587848f7a771126dc05c1ef22021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256966https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Delay of gratification-a form of self-control-is the ability to forsake immediately available rewards in order to obtain larger-valued outcomes in future, which develops throughout the pre-school years. The majority of previous research in this area has been conducted with Western populations, therefore knowledge of Eastern children's performance is scarcer. Here, utilising on a recently published dataset of British children (n = 61), we further tested delay of gratification in 3 to 5-year-old Chinese children (n = 75) using Bramlett et al.'s (2012) delay choice paradigm. The paradigm was previously used in non-human primates and it featured a mechanized rotating tray that sequentially moves rewards within reach. Additionally, we administered 3 inhibitory control tasks and 1 standardised delay choice task to Chinese pre-schoolers (British children were not tested). We aimed to investigate the influence of culture, reward type and reward visibility on pre-schoolers' ability to delay gratification. We found significant age-related improvements in delay of gratification ability in both countries and children performed better when presented with rewards varying in quality than quantity. Consistent with previous cross-cultural literature, Chinese children showed better overall performance than their British peers when reward visibility was manipulated (though reward visibility itself had no significant effect on performance). There were significant correlations in Chinese children's performance in Bramlett et al.'s (2012) delay choice paradigm and performance in some (though not all tested) inhibitory control tasks. We discuss these results in relation to task demands and the broader social orientation of self-control. We concluded that the intuitive comparative assessment of self-control task taps into children's delay of gratification ability. Our results emphasize the importance of testing for socio-cultural influences on children's cognitive development.Ning DingAnna FrohnwieserRachael MillerNicola S ClaytonPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0256966 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Ning Ding Anna Frohnwieser Rachael Miller Nicola S Clayton Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
description	Delay of gratification-a form of self-control-is the ability to forsake immediately available rewards in order to obtain larger-valued outcomes in future, which develops throughout the pre-school years. The majority of previous research in this area has been conducted with Western populations, therefore knowledge of Eastern children's performance is scarcer. Here, utilising on a recently published dataset of British children (n = 61), we further tested delay of gratification in 3 to 5-year-old Chinese children (n = 75) using Bramlett et al.'s (2012) delay choice paradigm. The paradigm was previously used in non-human primates and it featured a mechanized rotating tray that sequentially moves rewards within reach. Additionally, we administered 3 inhibitory control tasks and 1 standardised delay choice task to Chinese pre-schoolers (British children were not tested). We aimed to investigate the influence of culture, reward type and reward visibility on pre-schoolers' ability to delay gratification. We found significant age-related improvements in delay of gratification ability in both countries and children performed better when presented with rewards varying in quality than quantity. Consistent with previous cross-cultural literature, Chinese children showed better overall performance than their British peers when reward visibility was manipulated (though reward visibility itself had no significant effect on performance). There were significant correlations in Chinese children's performance in Bramlett et al.'s (2012) delay choice paradigm and performance in some (though not all tested) inhibitory control tasks. We discuss these results in relation to task demands and the broader social orientation of self-control. We concluded that the intuitive comparative assessment of self-control task taps into children's delay of gratification ability. Our results emphasize the importance of testing for socio-cultural influences on children's cognitive development.
format	article
author	Ning Ding Anna Frohnwieser Rachael Miller Nicola S Clayton
author_facet	Ning Ding Anna Frohnwieser Rachael Miller Nicola S Clayton
author_sort	Ning Ding
title	Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
title_short	Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
title_full	Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
title_fullStr	Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
title_full_unstemmed	Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
title_sort	waiting for the better reward: comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/f265472d587848f7a771126dc05c1ef2
work_keys_str_mv	AT ningding waitingforthebetterrewardcomparisonofdelayofgratificationinyoungchildrenacrosstwocultures AT annafrohnwieser waitingforthebetterrewardcomparisonofdelayofgratificationinyoungchildrenacrosstwocultures AT rachaelmiller waitingforthebetterrewardcomparisonofdelayofgratificationinyoungchildrenacrosstwocultures AT nicolasclayton waitingforthebetterrewardcomparisonofdelayofgratificationinyoungchildrenacrosstwocultures
_version_	1718374680516100096

Waiting for the better reward: Comparison of delay of gratification in young children across two cultures.

Ejemplares similares