Chunk #124 — Urgency and Psychopathology — Urgency and Psychological Interventions — Urgency-based Interventions as Distinct from Sensation Seeking-based Interventions
Many prevention and intervention efforts with risk-taking adolescents have been based on the view that high levels of sensation seeking place adolescents at significant risk (Palmgreen & Donohew, 1993). Positive and negative urgency are both structurally and predictively distinct from sensation seeking; whereas sensation seeking increases risk for frequently engaging in risky behaviors, the urgency traits increase risk for problem levels of involvement in those behaviors (Cyders et al., 2007a; Cyders & Smith, 2007; Fischer, Anderson & Smith, 2004; Smith et al., 2007a). The two traits require different interventions.
