Chunk #36 — Evidence for the Existence of Positive and Negative Urgency — Urgency in Relation to Comprehensive Models of Personality — Relations of the urgency traits to facets of neuroticism and conscientiousness
The measures of positive and negative urgency have a great deal of reliable variance that is not explained by the set of neuroticism and conscientiousness facets, or by their interaction. In fact, the majority of the reliable variance of each of the two measures does not overlap with these other measures. Based on these findings, it does not appear to be the case that the urgency traits represent combinations of neuroticism and conscientiousness. Instead, they appear more closely tied to the impulsiveness facet of neuroticism.1
