The Ability Of3-5Years Old Children’s Self-imposed Delay Of Gratification And Its Relationship With Parenting Style

The delay of gratification,being the kind of choice orientation to forego immediategratification for the sake of more valuable delayed outcomes,and the ability of self-controlshown during the waiting process.It is the key composition and the important ability ofself-control of individual,it also play an positive role in the individual growth andenvironmental adaptation.3to5years old is an important period of self-imposed delay ofgratification ability’s formation. The self-imposed delay of four years old children caneffectively predict the cognitive and social ability, emotion and individual development infuture.Therefore,it has important theoretical and practical significance for the ability ofindividual development and social progress to research self-imposed delay of children.In thisstudy,through the improvement of the classic experimental paradigm of Mishel-SID,adpotingthe situational observation to investigate3-5years old children’s self-imposed delay ofgratification,designed to examine the development characteristics of children’s self-imposeddelay of gratification time and delay-strategy,have an preliminary discussion to the impactmechanism of the relationship between parenting style, children’s self-imposed delay and theapplication of delay-strategy.Through the statistical analysis of the data, We summerised the following conclusions:1.3-5year-old children’s self-imposd delay of gratification time has a significant agedifferences,3-4year-old was a critical period of the children’s self-imposed of gratification.2.3-5year-old children’s self-imposed delay of gratification time there was nosignificant gender differences.3.3-5year-old children have a significant main effect of age in four strategiclevels,where the level two seeking-strategy and the level three attention mobility–strategymost rapidly in4years of age,and level three showed an obviously advantage. There is asignificant main effect of age in seeking target-strategy,distracting-strategy,evading reward-strategy and leaving seat-strategy in the11kinds ofstrategies. Four strategic level and delayed time are positively correlated significantly,thestrategies of seeking target,distraction,evading reward, meditation and non-task-speech canexplain92.9%of the total variance of the children’s self-imposed delay of gratificationtime,and have reached significant level. 4.There is a significant negative correlation between3-5years old children’sself-imposed delay of gratification time and despotism and inconsistency in parentingstyle.The despotism of parenting style can predicted children’s self-imposed delay ofgratification significantly.There is a significantly negatively correlated between the strategy ofattempting and ring the bell and indulge of parenting style,seeking target and anddespotism,distraction and despotism,inconsistency.Which indulge and despotism of parentingstyle have a significant predictive effect respectively on the application of strategy ofattempting to ring the bell,seeking target and distraction.