Patience in Everyday Life: Three Field Studies in France, Germany, and Romania

Patience is a highly relevant virtue in daily life. Yet patience has not yet been studied systematically across cultures. The aim of this study is to investigate three competing hypotheses. Based on the pace-of-life hypothesis, individuals that reside in countries with slower paces of life will be most patient. Based on the self-regulation hypothesis, countries with a strong emphasis on self-regulation will be most patient. Based on the...