Chunk #32 — 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
First, we concurrently predicted negative urgency with the five neuroticism facets (R2 = .31) and then with the six conscientiousness facets (R2 = .28). These correlations indicate that 58% (.89 − .31) of the variance in negative urgency was reliable but unrelated to the five neuroticism facets, and 61% was reliable but unrelated to the six conscientiousness facets. We then concurrently predicted positive urgency from the same two sets of traits. The five neuroticism traits explained 9% of the variance in positive urgency: thus, 85% of the trait's variance was reliable but unrelated to the five neuroticism traits. The six conscientiousness traits explained 17% of the variance in positive urgency, indicating that 77% of the trait's variance is reliable but unrelated to those six traits.
