Chunk #35 — 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
Lastly, we predicted the two traits with overall neuroticism scores (removing impulsiveness), overall conscientiousness scores, and their interaction. The main effects of overall neuroticism and conscientiousness together explained 33% of the variance in negative urgency, and 11% of the variance in positive urgency. The interaction was significant for negative urgency; the joint effect of neuroticism and conscientiousness explained an additional 3% of the variance in that trait. The interaction was not significant in the concurrent prediction of positive urgency; it explained no additional variance. Thus, 53% of the variance in negative urgency and 83% of the variance in positive urgency was reliable but distinct from the two broad traits and their interaction.
