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Academic delay of gratification refers to students’ postponement of immediately available opportunities to satisfy impulses in favor of pursuing important academic rewards or goals that are temporally remote but ostensibly more valuable.
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Bembenutty and Karabenick [4, 5] develop the concept of academic delay of gratification to apply the general construct of delay of gratification to learning contexts. This theoretical approach extends the work of Mischel [6] on delay gratification. Bembenutty and Karabenick [4] demonstrated extensive associations between academic delay of gratification and students’ achievement motivation tendencies and use of learning strategies with a scale specifically designed to assess students’ tendencies to delay gratification in an academic context (academic delay of gratification scale – ADOGS; [4]). Students reporting greater preference to delay of...
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Bembenutty, H. (2011). Academic Delay of Gratification. In: Goldstein, S., Naglieri, J.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79061-9_3150
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