title: Causal relationships among academic delay of gratification, motivation, and self-regulated learning in elementary school children.
abstract: Academic delay of gratification refers to the postponement of immediate rewards by students and the pursuit of more important, temporally remote academic goals. A path model was designed to identify the causal relationships among academic delay of gratification and motivation, self-regulated learning strategies (as specified in the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire), and grades among 386 Chinese elementary school children. Academic delay of gratification was found to be positively related to motivation and metacognition. Cognitive strategy, resource management, and grades mediated these two factors and were indirectly related to academic delay of gratification.
authors.affiliation: Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences, Graduate School of Human-Environment Studies, Kyushu University. lilizh76@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lili
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Shun'ichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maruno
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D002648:Child; D002755:Choice Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009042:Motivation; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011594:Psychometrics; D012201:Reward; D012927:Social Control, Informal