Chunk #34 — 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
We then predicted the two traits with the interactions of each of the five neuroticism traits with each of the five conscientiousness traits. We used the standard approach in which one centers the predictors and tests the interaction after the main effects were entered (Cohen, Cohen, West, & Aiken, 2003). For negative urgency, only 1 of 30 interactions was significant. Angry hostility interacted with deliberation to explain an additional 3% of the negative urgency variance. For positive urgency, again 1 of 30 interactions was significant. Again, angry hostility interacted with deliberation, this time explaining an additional 1% of the positive urgency variance.
