Young Children's Saving and Their Episodic Future Thinking

Autor/inn/en	Tsui, Angeline Sin Mei; Atance, Cristina M.
Titel	Young Children's Saving and Their Episodic Future Thinking
Quelle	In: Journal of Cognition and Development, 24 (2023) 3, S.438-457 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1524-8372
DOI	10.1080/15248372.2022.2156516
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preschool Children; Childrens Attitudes; Money Management; Thinking Skills; Cognitive Processes; Time Perspective; Delay of Gratification; Predictor Variables; Decision Making; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Denkfähigkeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Zeitbezug; Prädiktor; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Kanada
Abstract	Children's ability to save emerges during the preschool years, but little is known about the different forms saving takes (and whether these relate) and the mechanisms driving its development. Because research with adults suggests that different aspects of future orientation increase adults' propensity to save, we explored whether, in a sample of 71 3- to 5-year-olds tested in a university laboratory in Ottawa, Canada, the ability to mentally pre-experience the future (or "episodic future thinking") predicted saving in two different contexts. In the first, using a "Saving marbles" task, we assessed children's capacity to save for a larger reward in the near future. In the second, using a newly developed "Saving candies" task, we assessed children's capacity to save a certain amount of resource for a more remote future time point, without necessarily reaping a larger future reward. Children were also given two delay of gratification tasks to determine whether these related to saving. Performance on both saving tasks was significantly related after controlling for age in months and verbal ability (r = 0.25, p = 0.041), a finding that suggests some coherence in early saving behaviors. However, we detected no significant associations between saving and delay of gratification. A series of regression analyses showed that episodic future thinking, as measured by three different tasks, did not predict saving. Our discussion focuses on why the capacity to think about the future may not predict saving in early development, and suggests viable avenues for future research in this area. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01