AUTHOR=Li Yuanyuan J. , Liu Yuanyuan 

TITLE=Are Parents Patient? The Influence of Parenting Role Salience and Parental Status on Impatience

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2018

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01523

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01523

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=In the classic intertemporal discounting task (Thaler, 1981), individuals always have to make trade-off decisions between smaller-sooner and larger-later monetary rewards. We explored how parental role salience influences individuals’ choice between smaller-sooner and larger-later choices. Parental role salience is both measured and manipulated in this research. Our results show a significant interaction between parental status and manipulated parental role salience. Specifically, we found that parents are more impatient than nonparents. Additionally, only among nonparents, manipulated parental role salience enhances impatience.