"In the 90's there was a fairly significant trend toward donor gratification".
These character strengths — "perseverance, industriousness, grit, resilience, curiosity, application" and "self-control, future orientation, self-discipline, impulse control, delay of gratification" — make significant contributions to success in adulthood and upward mobility.
After controlling for age and months in school, the ATT intervention and verbal inhibition task performance were significant independent predictors of delay of gratification.
We live in a world of instant gratification, and compulsion causes a significant amount of human actions simply because things are so quick and easy today.
Gratification: The F1 feature is statistically significant, while F2 is not.
This finding of concerted gene regulation was attenuated on gratification with perplexingly rapid kinetics of only 10 min, anteceding significant absorption of salt from the gut.
Interestingly, a 2011 study found that the contrast in delayed gratification between children with and without ADHD was no longer significant after statistically controlling for IQ (in other words, ADHD was not associated with delayed gratification above and beyond the influence of IQ).
But suppose you are working toward an investment goal that you're certain will lead to significant, possibly even game-changing gains over the long term, yet there is no immediate gratification or validation in sight?
Lynam found significant differences between the HIA-CP and CP-only groups on tasks involving delay of gratification and a neuropsychological task requiring attention and concentration to perform sequences of complex behaviors.
Instantaneous gratification.
