Reducing patience to a mere "coping mechanism" misses what makes virtues meaningful. The study doesn't debunk virtue; it just describes its mechanics. By this logic, we could reduce courage to "threat response management" or honesty to "cognitive consistency maintenance." The interesting finding isn't that patience has psychological underpinnings (of course it does), but that it functions primarily through emotion regulation rather than moral reasoning. Still, its moral value comes from what patient behavior enables: better social relations, more considered decisions, and recognition of values beyond immediate gratification. Mechanisms explain how virtues operate; they don't negate the virtues themselves.

Yeah having hard time agreeing with that article which even concludes that its maybe, who knows, but more study needed. All based on some questionnaires about things that are often hard to describe in a/b/c/d manner.

I have personally tons of patience, more than most people I know personally and professionally, and its one of the best assets to have in the toolbox. Why shouldn't it be a virtue? Even if we decide not, who actually cares about labeling. Life is simply better, reaching long term goals is much easier, one is more content if not outright happier (or happiness level overall is higher).

Yeah, doesn't look like this article is very good and has drawn it's own conclusions.

Reading the abstract of the paper, it doesn't mention virtue once. Unfortunately the paper is paywalled:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01461672241284028

It does say it's investigating:

"patience as a targeted form of emotion regulation"

Emotion regulation sure sounds like what a layman might describe as a virtue to me.

  Specifically, better scores on the measures of impulsivity, emotional awareness and flexibility, and also the personality trait of agreeableness were all linked to higher patience scores. But these results do suggest that patience is not so much virtue as a method to help us to deal with frustrations — and that some of us are better equipped to employ this coping mechanism than others.

The flaw in this argument is that non-impulsiveness, emotional awareness, and agreeableness are all considered virtues! And I really don’t like the implicit suggestion that impatient people are just born that way and patient people won the luck of the draw: I was far more impatient before I started getting mental health treatment.

Virtues are a coping strategy.

- Kindness is for the weak, winners are heartless.

- Courtesy is a symptom of dysentry.

- Empathy makes you look like a moron.

- Being decent to other humans is worse than Hitler.

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