Chunk #27 — 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
From these findings, we conclude that the urgency traits, like the NEO-PI-R impulsiveness facet, share variance with a set of scales measuring aspects of subjective distress, low conscientiousness, and low agreeableness. It would seem artificial to assign them to one or the other of the five domains, but variability on the urgency traits can be understood within the five factor framework. Not surprisingly, when we include the urgency traits and require a two factor solution, the urgency traits fall on the factor labeled alpha (negative urgency = −.74, positive urgency = −.55, impulsivity facet = −.64).
