This research was also able to identify a number of things that patience is not; specifically, patience is not just the opposite of impatience, delay of gratification, or self-regulation of emotion. The evidence for the effects of patience, though limited, seems to reflect both positive and negative outcomes.
Using the same method, in 1999â2004, myopia prevalence was estimated to have climbed to 41.6%. A study of 2,523 children in grades 1 to 8 (age, 5â17 years) found nearly one in 10 (9.2%) have at least â 0.75 diopters of myopia.
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a condition in which the eye cannot focus on distant objects, and sometimes closer ones too. It is a common eye problem and one of the leading causes of vision loss around the world.