Washington - Children who show little control of themselves to three years are at greater risk than others to suffer before the 32 years, health problems, addiction, financial difficulties and with justice, according to a study published on Monday United States. Researchers at Duke University, North Carolina (southeast) studied for more than 30 years over one thousand children in New Zealand, who were self-rated and evaluated by their teachers, parents and other observers.Criteria for evaluation include: inability to control anger, lack of perseverance to achieve goals, difficulty completing tasks, hyperactivity, tendency to act before they think, difficult to wait his turn, agitation and lack of scruples. Children with the lowest scores on these criteria were that as adults, showed more respiratory problems, venereal diseases, overweight, high cholesterol and hypertension, according to psicóloca Terrie Moffitt of Duke University, a lead author this research by an international team.
The work was published in the Annals of the American National Academina of Sciences (PNAS), dated January 24-28. Furthermore, the impulsivity and the relative inability to think long term, combined with a low self-control, mean that these people have trouble managing their finances, save from a mortgage loan to repay.
These children also are likely to become unwed mothers, alcoholics, smokers or consumers of other drugs, and even having trouble with the law, determined the study's authors.
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