Silverman I W, Ragusa D M
Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University.
Genet Soc Gen Psychol Monogr. 1990 Nov;116(4):435-73.
In two studies, we assessed the ability of 24-month-old children (N = 82) to delay a response to an attractive stimulus on a series of tasks administered by either the child's mother or a female adult stranger. In both studies, delay performance was consistent across tasks, but findings were inconsistent as to the effect on delay performance of a child's gender or the examiner's relationship to the child. Mothers' ratings of their children's personality predicted delay performance; superior performance was associated with low impulsivity, high attention span/persistence, and low sociability. Superior delay performance was also associated with low maternal directiveness as assessed on compliance tasks, and with mothers' encouragement of independence as assessed on a child-rearing attitude questionnaire.
在两项研究中，我们评估了24个月大的儿童（N = 82）在由孩子的母亲或女性成年陌生人进行的一系列任务中，延迟对有吸引力刺激做出反应的能力。在两项研究中，延迟表现跨任务保持一致，但关于儿童性别或检查者与儿童的关系对延迟表现的影响，研究结果并不一致。母亲对孩子性格的评分可预测延迟表现；卓越的表现与低冲动性、高注意力持续时间/坚持性以及低社交性相关。卓越的延迟表现还与在服从任务中评估的低母亲指导性，以及在育儿态度问卷中评估的母亲对独立性的鼓励相关。
