"Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term."
The ability to resist immediate rewards for a better future outcome.
Self-Control: Refers to the ability to control one's impulses, thoughts, and behavior.
Impulsivity: Refers to the tendency to act without thinking about the consequences of one's actions.
Mindfulness: Refers to paying attention to the present moment with a non-judgmental attitude.
Delayed Gratification: Refers to the ability to resist the temptation of immediate rewards.
Emotional Intelligence: Refers to the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions.
Willpower: Refers to the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to achieve long-term goals.
Procrastination: Refers to delaying or avoiding tasks that need to be completed.
Time Management: Refers to the process of planning and using time effectively for productivity and accomplishment of goals.
Motivation: Refers to the driving force that energizes and directs behavior towards goals.
Goal Setting: Refers to the process of creating specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound targets to achieve.
Values: Refers to the principles or beliefs that drive behavior and decision-making.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Refers to the therapy that combines cognitive and behavioral techniques to change negative thought patterns and behaviors.
Gratitude: Refers to the feeling of thankfulness and appreciation for what we have.
Resilience: Refers to the ability to bounce back from adversity or setbacks.
Patience: Refers to the ability to tolerate delays and hardship without getting annoyed or frustrated.
Self-Awareness: Refers to having a clear understanding of one's values, strengths, weaknesses, and emotions.
Strengths-Based Approaches: Refers to the approach that recognizes and builds on people's strengths and abilities rather than focusing on weaknesses and deficits.
Positive Psychology: Refers to the field of psychology that studies the factors that contribute to a happy and fulfilling life.
Growth Mindset: Refers to the belief that one's abilities and intelligence can be developed and improved through hard work and dedication.
Decision-Making: Refers to the process of making choices or selecting a course of action among several alternatives.
Problem-Solving: Refers to the process of finding solutions to problems.
Emotional Regulation: Refers to the ability to manage and regulate one's emotions.
Impulse Control: Refraining from acting impulsively or giving in to immediate desires.
Planning and Prioritizing: Creating a plan and prioritizing tasks or goals, putting off immediate gratification in order to achieve larger and more long-term rewards.
Persistence: Continuing to work towards a goal, even when faced with obstacles or setbacks.
Willpower: Maintaining self-discipline and resisting the temptation to indulge in immediate gratification.
Delaying consumption: Choosing to delay consuming something we are craving, such as food or alcohol, in order to experience a greater reward later.
Saving: Putting off immediate purchases or expenditures in order to save up for a larger purchase or goal.
Investing: Choosing to invest funds in the hopes of achieving greater returns over time, rather than spending money on immediate purchases.
Sacrifice: Making a sacrifice or giving up something we desire in order to achieve a larger goal.
Mindfulness: Focusing on the present moment and being aware of the potential long-term consequences of our actions.
Tolerance of uncertainty: Being able to tolerate uncertainty and delay gratification in the face of uncertainty.
Delayed gratification for health benefits: Choosing to forego immediate pleasures and indulgences, such as junk food or smoking, in order to achieve better health in the long run.
Delayed gratification for financial benefits: Choosing to forego unnecessary expenses, such as buying a new car or going on an expensive vacation, in order to achieve long-term financial security.
Delayed gratification for career benefits: Choosing to work hard, persist in your career, and make long-term investments in your future, even if it means sacrificing immediate pleasures or pursuing challenging goals.
Delayed gratification for personal growth: Making a commitment to personal growth by focusing on long-term goals, such as learning a new skill or developing a new relationship.
Delayed gratification for spiritual growth: Choosing to forego immediate gratification, such as indulging in excessive material possessions, in order to pursue spiritual growth and inner peace.
"A growing body of literature has linked the ability to delay gratification to a host of other positive outcomes, including academic success, physical health, psychological health, and social competence."
"A person's ability to delay gratification relates to other similar skills such as patience, impulse control, self-control, and willpower, all of which are involved in self-regulation."
"Delaying gratification is the reverse of delay discounting, which is 'the preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger but delayed rewards' and refers to the 'fact that the subjective value of reward decreases with increasing delay to its receipt'."
"Several factors can affect a person's ability to delay gratification. Cognitive strategies, such as the use of distracting or 'cool' thoughts, can increase delay ability, as can neurological factors, such as strength of connections in the frontal-striatal pathway."
"Age plays a role too; children under five years old demonstrate a marked lack of delayed gratification ability and most commonly seek immediate gratification."
"A very small difference between males and females suggest that females may be better at delaying rewards."
"The inability to choose to wait rather than seek immediate reinforcement is related to avoidance-related behaviors such as procrastination, and to other clinical diagnoses such as anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and depression."
"Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalytic theory, discussed the ego's role in balancing the immediate pleasure-driven desires of the id with the morality-driven choices of the superego."
"Funder and Block found that impulsivity, or a lack of ego-control, has a stronger effect on one's ability to choose delayed rewards if a reward is more desirable."
"For example, delay is affected by the self-imposed or external nature of a reward contingency, by the degree of task engagement required during the delay, by early mother-child relationship characteristics, by a person's previous experiences with unreliable promises of rewards, and by contemporary sociocultural expectations and paradigms."
"Research on animals comprises another body of literature describing delayed gratification characteristics that are not as easily tested in human samples, such as ecological factors affecting the skill."
"It is theorized that the ability to choose delayed rewards is under the control of the cognitive-affective personality system (CAPS)."
"Cognitive strategies, such as the use of distracting or 'cool' thoughts, can increase delay ability."
"Neurological factors, such as strength of connections in the frontal-striatal pathway, can influence a person's ability to delay gratification."
"The inability to choose to wait rather than seek immediate reinforcement is related to avoidance-related behaviors such as procrastination."
"A person's previous experiences with unreliable promises of rewards (e.g., in poverty) can affect their ability to delay gratification."
"Contemporary sociocultural expectations and paradigms can influence a person's ability to delay gratification."
"A growing body of literature has linked the ability to delay gratification to other positive outcomes, including psychological health."
"A growing body of literature has linked the ability to delay gratification to other positive outcomes, including academic success."