Delay of Gratification in Preschoolers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Individual Differences and Links to Executive Function, Emotion Regulation, and Joint Attention

Autor/inn/en	Jahromi, Laudan B.; Chen, Yanru; Dakopolos, Andrew J.; Chorneau, Alice
Titel	Delay of Gratification in Preschoolers with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: Individual Differences and Links to Executive Function, Emotion Regulation, and Joint Attention
Quelle	In: Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 23 (2019) 7, S.1720-1731 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1362-3613
DOI	10.1177/1362361319828678
Schlagwörter	Autism; Pervasive Developmental Disorders; Preschool Children; Delay of Gratification; Individual Differences; Executive Function; Emotional Response; Self Control; Attention; Child Behavior; Affective Behavior; Parent Attitudes; Correlation; Preschool Language Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Autismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Individueller Unterschied; Emotionales Verhalten; Selbstbeherrschung; Aufmerksamkeit; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Elternverhalten; Korrelation
Abstract	This study examined delay of gratification behaviors in preschool-aged children with and without autism spectrum disorder. Recent research has found that elementary-aged children with autism spectrum disorder showed challenges with delay of gratification and that there were individual differences in terms of children's behaviors during the wait. We extend this work to a younger sample of children with autism spectrum disorder to understand whether these difficulties emerge by the preschool years. Moreover, we assessed whether individual differences in other key self-regulatory capacities (i.e. effortful control, emotion regulation, executive function, and joint attention) were related to delay of gratification wait durations or behavioral strategies. Findings revealed that preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder waited for a shorter duration, demonstrated more temptation-focused behaviors, and expressed less positive affect than their typical peers during the delay of gratification task. At the full-sample level, individual differences in children's temptation-focused behaviors (i.e. visual attention and verbalizations focused on the temptation) were related to children's executive function, joint attention, and parents' ratings of emotion regulation. When we examined associations within groups, the associations were not significant for the autism spectrum disorder group, but for typically developing children, there was a positive association between temptation-focused behaviors and emotion regulation. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01