Adequate self-control is critical to pursue valued distal goals over less important proximal motives for the sake of long-term adaptation. People with high self-control are better able to regulate their emotions, impulses, and thoughts than people with low self-control (de Ridder, Lensvelt-Mulders, Finkenauer, Stok, & Baumeister, 2012). Self-control can help an individual to adapt to a given cultural and social context. Self-control is shaped from infancy to young adulthood and develops most strongly during toddlerhood and childhood. As such, children initially develop self-control skills primarily within their family environment and in the context of specific parenting practices. Importantly, parents from different cultures may employ different parenting styles to help children’s culture-specific socialization (Keller et al., 2004). The current study aims to investigate how paternal warmth and control are related to children’s self-control in the Western European and East Asian cultures, using data from ...