Chunk #33 — 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 also concurrently predicted the two traits with all five neuroticism and all six conscientiousness facets entered together. For negative urgency, R2 = .44; thus, 45% of the negative urgency variance was reliable by unexplained by the 11 traits. For positive urgency, R2 = .22: 72% of the positive urgency variance was reliable but unexplained by the set of traits.