We investigated whether individual differences in future time perception and the detail with which future events are imagined are related to children’s delay of gratification. We administered a delay choice task (real rewards), a delay discounting task (hypothetical rewards), a novel future time perception measure, an episodic future thinking (EFT) interview and IQ measures to a sample of 7- to 11-year-olds (N = 132) drawn from a urban predominately white population in N. Ireland. We found a strong correlation between delay choice and delay discounting. Future time perception and EFT were related to delay discounting, however only the relation with future time perception survived controlling for age and IQ. Children who showed greater compression of future time periods were the steepest discounters.

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更多稍后：延迟满足和对儿童未来的思考

我们调查了未来时间感知的个体差异和想象未来事件的细节是否与儿童的延迟满足有关。我们对 7 至 11 岁的样本进行了延迟选择任务（真实奖励）、延迟折扣任务（假设奖励）、新的未来时间感知测量、情景未来思维 (EFT) 访谈和智商测量( N  = 132) 来自N 中以白人为主的城市人口. 爱尔兰。我们发现延迟选择和延迟折扣之间存在很强的相关性。未来时间知觉和 EFT 与延迟贴现有关，但只有与未来时间知觉的关系在控制年龄和智商后才存在。表现出未来时间段更大压缩的儿童是最陡峭的折扣者。