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Wait for It: Delay-Discounting and Academic Performance among an Irish Adolescent Sample
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Freeney, Yseult; O'Connell, Michael – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
Beyond cognitive ability and family background, are there other significant determinants of educational attainment? From research in psychology, economics, education and criminology, one powerful influence is the ability to delay gratification, operationalised in this paper as "delay-discounting". It is intuitively plausible that the…
Descriptors: Delay of Gratification, Family Characteristics, Educational Attainment, Multivariate Analysis