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Download full textBembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 1999
Academic delay of gratification (ADOG) refers to students' postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing academic goals that are temporally remote but ostensibly more valuable. This important form of self-regulation was studied among college students to determine how it serves to sustain effort over…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Educational Objectives
