Are Parents Patient? The Influence of Parenting Role Salience and Parental Status on Impatience

Frontiers in Psychology

Yuanyuan J. Li¹ 

关键词: parent vs. non-parent;    parental role salience;    intertemporal discounting task;    impatience;    risk aversion;    resource accumulation;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01523

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In the classic intertemporal discounting task (Thaler, 1981), individuals make tradeoff decisions between smaller-sooner and larger-later monetary rewards. We explored how parental role salience and parental status influences individual’s choice between smaller-sooner and larger-later choices. Parental role salience is manipulated among both parents and non-parents in this research. Our results show a significant interaction between parental status and manipulated parental role salience. Specifically, we found that parents are more impatient than non-parents. Additionally, non-parents become more impatient after parental role salience manipulation, similar to parents. Theoretical implications of our findings are discussed.

【 授权许可】

CC BY