I have struggled with not being slightly late often. Was late a lot as a teenager and in my early 20s, trained myself out of it when I was older, started slipping in my later 30s, working on it again. In general I am pretty good, but am fairly regularly, if not necessarily often, just slightly late places. Or I am on time, but cut it close. I'm sure this says something about me, but I am not sure what. I never thought of control issues as a possible reason for people who are chronically late, though it is not the case for me. The easy out is to just blame being Caribbean Latin American
My parents lived in Mexico City for a bit in the late 60s and my mom, who is from Missouri, was invited to a dinner party. Let's say published time was 7PM. Mom shows up at 7PM, wife is in the bath and husband isn't home from work yet. First other guest to arrive was at 8PM. I went to a wedding in Bangalore a few years ago, and in a week in that city not one single event ran "on time." If we're supposed to leave the house at 6PM, we left no earlier than 6:45. The groom was an hour late for his own wedding! But that was no big deal, everyone just rolled with it.