EDUCATION, cilt.133, sa.4, ss.525-537, 2013 (Hakemli Dergi)
The present study was conducted on 508 (331 female, 144 male) first
grade university students in order to investigate the relations between
self regulation, the future time perspectives, and the delay of gratification
in the academic field. A future time perspective scale, an académie
delay of gratification scale and a motivational strategies for leaming
questionnaire were used for collecting data in December 2011. According
to the research results, it was found that the students setting distant
goals for themselves, and who connected those goals with their current
actions, valuing actions that allowed them to reach their goals, overeóme
the problems caused hy environmental distractors that prevented them
fi-om reaching those goals more easily, and they could also set sub-goals
more easily. It ean be said that these students apply self regulation strategies
that allow them to be sueeessfiil in also conducting their academic
activity. Finally, delay of gratification ean be aeeepted as a self regulation
strategy.