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1University of California, Riverside, USA.
This study introduces the process model of patience, viewing patience as emotion regulation targeting impatience. This new framework offers a cohesive understanding of patience across disciplines.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Philosophy
- Religious Studies
Background:
- Patience is a widely studied concept across various disciplines, yet lacks a unified theoretical framework.
- Existing research offers insights but fails to provide a cohesive approach to understanding patience.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a novel theoretical framework for understanding patience.
- To define patience as a process of emotion regulation targeting impatience.
- To explore predictors and consequences of patience and impatience.
Main Methods:
- Grounded in theories of emotion and emotion regulation.
- Conceptualizes impatience as a discrete emotion.
- Presents the "process model of patience".
Main Results:
- Impatience is identified as an emotion triggered by objectionable delays.
- Patience is framed as a regulatory process managing impatience.
- Initial evidence supports the model's tenets regarding predictors and consequences.
Conclusions:
- The process model of patience integrates diverse findings and methodologies.
- This model provides a coherent theoretical approach to patience.
- It generates new, testable hypotheses for future research on patience and its societal implications.
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