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Chunk #49 — Personality Structure — The Practicality of Focusing on Unidimensional Constructs

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On the value of homogeneous constructs for construct validation, theory testing, and the description of psychopathology.
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to be effective for different ones of the traits (perhaps distress tolerance for the urgency traits and safe, alternative ways to seek sensations for sensation seeking; Cyders & Smith, 2008b; Fischer & Smith, 2008; Palmgreen & Donohew, 2003). These advances could not have occurred, had researchers continued to rely on a single score from what turned out to be multidimensional measures of “impulsivity.”