Guided Response: Review several of your colleagues’ posts and respond to at least two of your peers including one response to a classmate in each of the other two groups by 11:59 p.m. on Day 7 of the week. You are encouraged to post your required replies earlier in the week to promote more meaningful and interactive discourse in this discussion.
Prior to crafting your responses, critically review the required articles that were not assigned to you for your initial post. Acknowledge and evaluate the proposed changes made by your classmate. Did your classmate appropriately identify the specified elements? What elements might you suggest he or she consider that were not present in the initial post? Were there ethical concerns presented in the article your colleague studied that were not addressed in his or her post? Was your colleague’s description of the proposed changes clear and appropriate in terms of the information presented in his or her article? Propose at least one change that your colleague did not consider, and explain why it would be an improvement to the study. Continue to monitor the discussion forum until 5:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Day 7 of the week and respond to anyone who replies to your initial post.
My last name starts with an S and therefore I will be focused on the article “The delay of gratification test for adults: Validating a behavioral measure of self-motivation in a sample of older people” (2011). “Having to choose between an immediate reward and a greater future reward that may require the investment of time and effort is a recurrent challenge in life” (Forstmeier et Al., 2011). The studies participants put more of a focus on the older generation, looking at what delayed gratification motivated them the most compared to the younger generation. There were 147 participants with only 137 who ended up finishing the questionnaire. The participants ranged from 60 to 94 years old. The gratification that was used in the study to see what motivated them was snacks and money.
Previously, the same test was done on the younger generation, however, the time lapse was shorter and there were different rewards that were used (sweets instead of monetary motivations). The study did show that snacks proved to stimulate the most feeling of well-being among participants and seemed to motivate them a significant amount.
After reading the downfalls of this study, I read that the researchers thought the study should have more of a longitudinal study that asked more in-depth questions such as: How delay of gratification affects functional abilities and investigate test–retest reliability and stability versus change
over time which I think is important in any test. It’s good to see how this study could change over time among a participant.
Resources:
Forstmeier, S., Drobetz, R., & Maercker, A. (2011). The delay of gratification test for adults: Validating a behavioral measure of self-motivation in a sample of older people. Motivation & Emotion, 35(2), 118-134. doi:10.1007/s11031-011-9213-1