The phrase "a delay of gratification" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about self-control, psychology, or behavioral economics, particularly when referring to the ability to resist immediate rewards for greater long-term benefits.
Example: "Children who can manage a delay of gratification often perform better academically in the long run."
Alternatives: "postponement of pleasure" or "deferral of rewards".
To assess whether preschoolers' performance on a delay of gratification task would predict their body mass index (BMI) 30 years later.
Behavior analysts capitalize on the effective principles of reinforcement when shaping behavior by making rewards contingent on the person's current behavior, which promotes learning a delay of gratification.
Thus, the Money condition can be conceptualized as including a delay of gratification component, since cognitive effort had to be consistently and continually applied in order to receive a delayed, accumulated payoff as opposed to directly experiencing a tangible reward on each trial [45], [46].
A recent pilot study showed that a delay of gratification and executive performance in individuals with schizophrenia may play a putative role for eating behavior and body weight regulation [ 10].
Most subjects had been involved in a delay-of-gratification task where they had to keep a piece of biscuit in their hand for a given amount of time before returning it for a better or larger reward.
One of the most successfully utilised measurements of impulsive choice is intolerance to delay-of-gratification, or delay-discounting, which is the function by which a reward is subjectively devalued by a delay to its delivery.
For instance, when Mischel gave delay-of-gratification tasks to children from low-income families in the Bronx, he noticed that their ability to delay was below average, at least compared with that of children in Palo Alto.
This indicates a link between delay of gratification or self control (which chimpanzees do exhibit [26]) and success in barter.
Path analysis suggested that experiential avoidance has a direct relationship with delay of gratification, and an indirect relationship through higher depression and anger.
Schmeichel and Vohs (2009) demonstrated that affirming the self at an abstract level (writing why one pursues a particular personal value) resulted in more delay of gratification on a computer game than affirming the self at a concrete level (writing how one pursues personal values), and counteracted depletion of self-regulatory resources by prior engagement in a self-control task.
"They know they're part of a long-term study that looks at delay of gratification, so if you give them an obvious delay task they'll do their best to resist.
