The relation between negative urgency and overall markers of subjective distress (such as general neuroticism) in the prediction of risky behaviors has also been investigated recently. Fischer et al. (2007) found that both general neuroticism and negative urgency differentiated among eating disordered women who also had alcohol-related problems and eating disordered women who did not (sensation seeking, lack of planning, and lack of perseverance did not differentiate between the two groups). Most importantly, they found the two predictors interacted: among individuals high in neuroticism, only those high in negative urgency were experiencing significant alcohol-related problems. They concluded that it was not distress alone that accounted for the clinical phenomenon, but rather the propensity to act rashly when distressed. Consistent with that inference, Anestis et al. (2007a) found that, among women who reported difficulty tolerating their distress, only those high in negative urgency had high levels of bulimic symptoms. Concerning the concurrent prediction of problem drinking, Spillane and Smith (2007) found that when negative urgency was included in the prediction model, the influence of neuroticism dropped by a significant amount and
