Chunk #28 — Evidence for the Existence of Positive and Negative Urgency — Urgency in Relation to Comprehensive Models of Personality — Factor analyses relating positive and negative urgency to comprehensive personality structure
We wish to highlight two aspects of these findings. First, positive urgency did not load on extraversion at the five factor level, nor did it load on beta or positive emotionality (Digman, 1997; Markon et al., 2005) at the two factor level. This finding is consistent with our theoretical model of urgency, which we describe below, and with findings that the two are facets of a common trait. We believe positive and negative urgency are both related to emotionality and affective dyscontrol; hence their relations with both neuroticism/emotional instability and conscientiousness.
