TY - JOUR
T1 - Helping young children to delay gratification
AU - Lee, Pai Lin
AU - Lan, William
AU - Wang, Chiao Li
AU - Chiu, Hsiu Yueh
PY - 2008/6
Y1 - 2008/6
N2 - The ability to delay gratification (DG) in young children is vital to their later development. Such ability should be taught as early as possible. One hundred kindergartners (Mean age = 6.11), randomly assigned to three groups; a, labeling: received the treatment of being labeled as "patient" kids; b, story-telling: were read a story about the patient antagonist rewarded double gifts, while the impulsive character got only one same reward; c, control: received no treatment. Under the DG task of Ball-Moving Activity, the ANOVA results showed the children in labeling group delayed longer (M = 13.23 m) than the control one (M = 11.25 m), showed marginal significant difference at p = .06, medium effect size magnitude at η2 = .06. No significant mean differences were found between the story-telling (M = 12.68 m) and the control group, though the story-telling group delayed more than 1 min longer than their counterparts. Sex differences on the task are also discussed.
AB - The ability to delay gratification (DG) in young children is vital to their later development. Such ability should be taught as early as possible. One hundred kindergartners (Mean age = 6.11), randomly assigned to three groups; a, labeling: received the treatment of being labeled as "patient" kids; b, story-telling: were read a story about the patient antagonist rewarded double gifts, while the impulsive character got only one same reward; c, control: received no treatment. Under the DG task of Ball-Moving Activity, the ANOVA results showed the children in labeling group delayed longer (M = 13.23 m) than the control one (M = 11.25 m), showed marginal significant difference at p = .06, medium effect size magnitude at η2 = .06. No significant mean differences were found between the story-telling (M = 12.68 m) and the control group, though the story-telling group delayed more than 1 min longer than their counterparts. Sex differences on the task are also discussed.
KW - Delay of gratification
KW - Early childhood development
KW - Labeling
KW - Story-telling
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=44649175948&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10643-008-0240-9
DO - 10.1007/s10643-008-0240-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44649175948
SN - 1082-3301
VL - 35
SP - 557
EP - 564
JO - Early Childhood Education Journal
JF - Early Childhood Education Journal
IS - 6
ER -