{"id":10494,"date":"2011-09-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/29\/self-control-key-to-health-wealth-and-success\/"},"modified":"2011-09-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T12:00:00","slug":"self-control-key-to-health-wealth-and-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/09\/29\/self-control-key-to-health-wealth-and-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Control: Key to Health, Wealth and Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2011\/01\/24\/the-key-to-health-wealth-and-success-self-control\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, January 24, 2011 (Time.com): Self-control in early life appears to be the secret to a successful life.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study,&#8221; whose results were published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that children with good self-control grew into adults who were typically healthier, wealthier, more law-abiding and less prone to addictions than their more impulsive peers. These findings confirm and expand upon the results of the famous Stanford marshmallow study [noted earlier in HPI].<\/p>\n<p>Following 1,000 children in New Zealand from birth to age 32, the new study found marked differences in adulthood between those who had the least self-control as children and those with the most:<\/p>\n<p>Multiple health problems: 27% vs. 11%<br \/>Addictions to multiple substances: 10% vs. 3%<br \/>Low income (under $20,000 per year): 32% vs. 10%<br \/>Criminal record by age 32: 43% vs. 13%<br \/>Single parents: 58% vs. 26%<\/p>\n<p>About half the problems surfaced in adolescence, such as becoming a smoker or getting pregnant. &#8220;Trial and error is a healthy part of teenage life,&#8221; says Duke University psychologist Terrie Moffitt, who led the new study. &#8220;But teens with good self-control engage in trial and error strategically, and they appreciate the difference between a useful learning experiment and real danger. I&#8217;m convinced that teenagers can be coached on this distinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About 7% of the children in Moffitt&#8217;s study dramatically increased their self-control over the course of the research, although researchers don&#8217;t know how or why.<\/p>\n<p>The full article, at source, contains much more information about this study.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source USA, January 24, 2011 (Time.com): Self-control in early life appears to be the secret to a successful life. The,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}