Table 2 presents the bivariate correlations among the study variables. As has been shown in the past, the five traits were inter-correlated. Both positive and negative urgency represent emotion-based dispositions to rash action. Not surprisingly, they correlated the most highly (r = .62). Lack of planning and lack of perseverance, both of which are understood to relate to the conscientiousness domain of personality [21, 22] correlated the next most highly (r = .39). On average, the five traits shared 15.7% of their variance.
