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Domain‐specific impulsivity in school‐age children

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: Impulsivity is a salient individual difference in children with well-established predictive validity for life outcomes. The current investigation proposes that impulsive behaviors vary systematically by domain. In a series of studies with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse samples of middle school students, we find that schoolwork-related and interpersonal-related impulsivity, as observed by teachers, parents, and the students themselves, are distinct, moderately correlated behavioral tendencies. Each demonstrates differentiated relationships with dimensions of childhood temperament, Big Five personality factors, and outcomes, such as report card grades. Implications for theoretical conceptions of impulsivity as well as for practical applications (e.g. domain-specific interventions) are discussed.

Source: Developmental Science

DOI: 10.1111/desc.12067

Authors: Eli Tsukayama, Angela Lee Duckworth, Betty Kim

Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: John Templeton Foundation, National Institute on Aging

Award: The Economics and Psychology of Self-Control