Universal Journal of Management Vol. 3(5), pp. 169 - 178
DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2015.030501
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Towards Empirically Measuring Patience


Klaus Brockhoff 1,*, Maximilian Margolin 2, Juergen Weber 2
1 WHU Foundation, Burgplatz 2, D 56179 Vallendar, Germany
2 Institute of Management Accounting and Control, WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany

ABSTRACT

Patience is considered mostly as one-dimensional. In this view it reflects the willingness to defer consumption. This can be represented by a time discount rate. We suggest that patience has a broader, multi-dimensional meaning. This is in contrast to much of the literature. We have identified 19 items to measure patience. Only a small subset of these items is correlated with self-evaluations of patience, which in turn is correlated with the standard economics measure of time discount rate. Our result suggests that patience is indeed a multi-dimensional construct. This could be of interest in many fields, particularly when patience is considered as influencing commercial decisions.

KEYWORDS
Patience, Impatience, Measurement, Validation of Survey Measures, Time Preference

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Klaus Brockhoff , Maximilian Margolin , Juergen Weber , "Towards Empirically Measuring Patience," Universal Journal of Management, Vol. 3, No. 5, pp. 169 - 178, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2015.030501.

(b). APA Format:
Klaus Brockhoff , Maximilian Margolin , Juergen Weber (2015). Towards Empirically Measuring Patience. Universal Journal of Management, 3(5), 169 - 178. DOI: 10.13189/ujm.2015.030501.