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=9

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=<p>In the classic intertemporal discounting task (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Thaler, 1981</xref>), individuals make tradeoff decisions between smaller-sooner and larger-later monetary rewards. We explored how parental role salience and parental status influences individual’s choice between smaller-sooner and larger-later choices. Parental role salience is manipulated among both parents and non-parents 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 non-parents. Additionally, non-parents become more impatient after parental role salience manipulation, similar to parents. Theoretical implications of our findings are discussed.</p>