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Download full textBembenutty, 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
