Development and application of self-control scales which are really useful to medicine and education

在教育领域，我们针对中小学生和大学生开发了延迟折扣测试。学童的折扣率与数学学习成绩相关，并可通过教育干预加以改善。同样，大学生的折现率与他们的学习态度相关，高折现率预示着写研究论文的时间更少。在医学领域，感觉寻求量表得分较低的2型糖尿病患者出院后HbA1c较高。此外，我们开发了一个健康行为的自我控制量表，并表明量表得分高预示着老年人健康的口腔护理更好，更忠实地遵守慢性肾脏疾病的药物和饮食治疗。

In the educational field, we developed a test of delay discounting for schoolchildren and university students. Rates of discounting in schoolchildren are correlated with learning performances in mathematics and could be improved by educational interventions. Similarly, rates of discounting in university students were correlated with their learning attitudes and high discounting rates predicted less time in writing research papers. In the medical field, patients with type II diabetes mellitus who showed low scores in sensation seeking scales showed high HbA1c after discharging. Moreover, we developed a self-control scale for health behavior and showed that high scores of the scale predicted better oral cares in elder healthy people and more faithful observances of medications and dietary cures in chronic kidney disease.