Impatience and grades: Delay-discount rates correlate negatively with college GPA

被引：127

作者：

Kirby, Kris N.

Winston, Gordon C.

Santiesteban, Mariana

机构：

来源：

LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES | 2005年 / 15卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家卫生研究院;

关键词：

Academic achievement; Reinforcement delay; Delay-discounting; Impulsiveness;

D O I：

10.1016/j.lindif.2005.01.003

中图分类号：

G44 [教育心理学];

学科分类号：

0402 ; 040202 ;

摘要：

Because the rewards of academic performance in college are often delayed, the delay-discounting model of impulsiveness (Ainslie (1975) [Ainslie, G. Specious reward: A behavioral theory of impulsiveness and impulse control. Psychological Bulletin, 82 (4), 463-496] predicts that academic performance should tend to decrease as people place less weight on future outcomes. To test this hypothesis, we estimated (hyperbolic) discount rates for real delayed monetary rewards (US$10 to US$20) using second-price auction procedures with 247 undergraduates at two liberal arts colleges. College GPA was reliably correlated with discount rates, r=-.19 (p=.003), and remained reliable after partialling out SAT scores. The results add to the external validity of the discounting model of impulsiveness, and point to a possible contributor to academic performance of interest in the study of higher education. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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页码：213 / 222

页数：10

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