Chunk #37 — 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
To conclude this section of the paper: we have shown that “impulsivity” researchers have identified several, distinct dispositions to engage in rash action. Two of those traits are positive and negative urgency, which refer to emotion-based dispositions to rash action. Each of the two urgency traits is unidimensional, and each has a distinct concurrent and prospective predictive role. The traits do not fall neatly onto a single dimension within the FFM of personality. Consistent with their proposed definition as emotion-based dispositions to rash action, they relate to both neuroticism and conscientiousness. They are not combinations of neuroticism and conscientiousness traits, either additively or interactively. That the urgency traits relate to both broad personality domains, and to the superordinate dimensions alpha, provides descriptive information consistent with the proposed definition of urgency. In the next section of the paper, we elaborate our theoretical account of urgency.
