A gradient of childhood self-control predicts health, wealth, and public safety

By Terrie E. Moffitt, Louise Arseneault, Daniel W Belsky, N. Dickson, R. Hancox, H. Harrington, Renate M. Houts, Richie Poulton, B. Roberts, Stephen Ross and 6 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2011

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Health, Social Psychology

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A Systematic Review of Personality Trait Change Through Intervention (2017, background): “For example, in passive observational studies of personality development, it is now known that changes in personality traits are predictive of important outcomes above and beyond original standing on those same traits (Moffitt et al., 2011; Mroc-zek & Spiro, 2007; Takahashi et al., 2013).”
Affective Determinants of Health Behavior (2018, result): “…1,000 children since birth into adulthood, has demonstrated that indices of effortful control in childhood predicted later outcomes of mental and physical health (Moffitt et al., 2011), replicating and extending earlier findings by Walter Mischel and colleagues (Mischel, Shoda, & Rodriguez, 1989).”
Self-regulation and toxic stress: Foundations for understanding self-regulation from an applied developmental perspective (2015, background): “The importance of self-regulation for long-term functioning across a wide range of domains, from psychological and social to academic and health, has now been clearly established [1-4].”
Other-rated personality and academic performance: Evidence and implications (2014, background): “More importantly, Conscientiousness has been both theoretically and empirically-linked with effortful control (De Pauw, Mervielde, & Van Leeuwen, 2009; Rothbart, 2007), and self-control (MacCann, Duckworth, & Roberts, 2009; Moffitt et al., 2011), the capacity to regulate attention in order to contro”
A Meta-Analysis of the Convergent Validity of Self-Control Measures (2011, neutral): “…achievement (Duckworth, Tsukayama, & May, 2010), physical health (Tsukayama, Toomey, Faith, & Duckworth, 2010; Moffitt et al., 2011), wealth (Moffitt et al., 2011), juvenile delinquency (Benda, 2005), criminal activity in adulthood (Moffitt et al., 2011), and even longevity (Kern & Friedman, 2008).”
Social and Emotional Learning: A Principled Science of Human Development in Context (2019, background): “For example, research has shown that social and emotional skills are related to positive academic, social, and mental health outcomes (e.g., Moffitt et al., 2011; Greenberg, Domitrovich, Weissberg, & Durlak, 2017).”
Reported self-control is not meaningfully associated with inhibition-related executive function: A Bayesian analysis (2018, background): “…of the present time” (Baumeister et al., 1994, pp. 3; see also, Mischel, Shoda, & Rodriguez, 1989), with low reported self-control predicting poorer health, finances, and wellbeing, and higher rates of mortality and criminal convictions (Moffitt et al., 2011; Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004).”