APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Socioeconomic Status Predicts Self-Control in Some, but Not All, Tasks in Children and Young Adults
- Briana Last
The University of Pennsylvania - Gwen Lawson
The University of Pennsylvania - Katilyn Breiner
University of California, Los Angeles - Laurence Steinberg
Temple University - Martha Farah
The University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Individuals of low socioeconomic status (SES) tend to prefer smaller rewards sooner in intertemporal choice tasks. Does this reflect a more general association between SES and self-control? We assessed self-control in multiple tasks as a function of childhood SES in 188 child and adult participants from 9-25 years of age.
Adolescent
