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This paper reviews the association between delay of gratification and future time perspective, which can be incorporated within the theoretical perspective of self-regulation of learning. It proposes that delay of gratification in academic contexts along with facilitative beliefs about the future increase the likelihood of completing academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
Bembenutty, Hefer – 2001
This study examined college students' motivational tendencies as predictors of academic outcomes and tested how students' goal orientations and academic delay of gratification mediated these associations. The study used data, previously analyzed in 1999, on academic delay of gratification, personal achievement goal orientations, self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 1998
This study examined the relationship between college students' preference for an immediately available option (e.g., go to a favorite concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (e.g., stay at home to study for the test). Analysis focused on how much a student would like to engage in a specific activity, the importance of the activity…
Descriptors: College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A.; McKeachie, Wilbert J.; Lin, Yi-Guang – 1998
This study examined the relationship between academic delay of gratification (ADOG) and college students' use of action control. College students (n=113) at a large midwestern university completed the academic delay of gratification scale developed by the authors and the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire, which included an adaptation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
Karabenick, Stuart A.; Bembenutty, Hefer – 1998
This study examined motivational determinants of academic delay of gratification (ADOG) with 196 undergraduate college students at a large midwestern university. Students completed the academic delay of gratification scale, in which students are presented with 10 hypothetical situations and they indicate their preference among options offering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Expectation
Bembenutty, Hefer – 1999
A study examined college students' academic delay of gratification, that is, their preference for an immediately available option (go to a concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (stay home studying for a test). Differential explanations of academic delay of gratification between task, performance approach, and performance-avoid…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
